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Notes on the natural history of politics

Alan Janik

In Cressida J. Heyes (ed.), The grammar of politics: Wittgenstein and political philosophy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press (2003)

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A Marxist reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Making the case for social and political change.Marc James Deegan - forthcoming - Philosophy and Social Criticism.details This article offers a Marxist reading of Wittgenstein and juxtaposes his famous dictum that philosophy ‘leaves everything as it is’ with the idea of transformative action. I seek to align the later philosophy of Wittgenstein with Marx’s 11th thesis on Feuerbach. I advance an unorthodox view interpreting Wittgenstein as an advocate for social and political reform. Wittgenstein’s philosophy encourages us to imagine alternatives and contemplate concrete possibilities for changing the world. The debate operates within the philosophy of education and draws (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Contesting Gender Concepts, Language and Norms: Three Critical Articles on Ethical and Political Aspects of Gender Non-conformity.Stephanie Julia Kapusta - 2015 - Dissertation, Western Universitydetails In chapter one I firstly critique some contemporary family-resemblance approaches to the category woman, and claim that they do not take sufficient account of dis-semblance, that is, resemblances that people have in common with members of the contrast category man. Second, I analyze how the concept of woman is semantically contestable: resemblance/dissemblance structures give rise to vagueness and to borderline cases. Borderline cases can either be included in the category or excluded from it. The factors which incline parties in a (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Politics of grammar: A comparison of Wittgenstein and Foucault.Yusuf Oz - unknowndetails In this dissertation, I establish that Ludwig Wittgensteins and Michel Foucaults thoughts share a common philosophical ethos of freedom which shapes the political dimensions of their works. As opposed to accusations on and interpretations of their works as suggesting and prescribing a conservative line of political thought, I argue that being shaped by the normative demands of the ethos of freedom, their thoughts resist such conservative understandings and press us to read and judge them in the medium of radical transformative (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Michael Oakeshott and the conversation of modern political thought.Luke Philip Plotica - 2015 - Albany: State University of New York Press.details Introduction : situating oakeshott -- Language, practice, and individual agency -- Individuality between tradition and contingency -- Imagining the modern state -- Towards a conversational democratic ethos -- Conclusion : hearing voices. Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations

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