{"product_id":"the-politics-of-postmodernity-essays-in-applied-hermeneutics-9789401038188","title":"The Politics of Postmodernity: Essays in Applied Hermeneutics","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gary Brent Madison\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Epistemology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe distinctive feature of Madison's political theory is the Merleau-Pontyan sense of contingency that pervades his writings on the subject and, indeed, is visible throughout his entire oeuvre. The perspicacity of Madison's view of con- tingency was first noted by Paul Ricoeur. In his foreword to the English transla- tion of Madison's now classic study of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur wrote: \"More than anything, the most penetrating view which Gary Madison proposes of Merleau-Ponty's final ontology concerns the paradox of contingency. \"! Twenty-eight years after the original French publication of his dissertation, we may look back over Madison's work and interpret it as working out Merleau-Ponty's insights into the implications of contingency for human political reality within the framework of a hermeneutical theory of democracy. The spirit of Merleau-Ponty's understanding of the emergence of Being at the heart of contingency and of contingency at the heart of Being is carried forward in Madison's articulation of a nondogmatic politics of communicative rational- ity. Madison's postmodern liberalism is unique in seeking to articulate a specifi- cally and explicitly hermeneutical politics, one that attempts to draw out the ul- timate praxial consequences of phenomenological hermeneutics. As might be expected from a political-economic theory of communicative rationality, Madi- son's thinking takes shape through a dialectical confrontation with a number of prominent contemporary writers-Derrida, Rorty, and Habermas, in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45282553561239,"sku":"9789401038188","price":7345.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789401038188.webp?v=1769302487","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-politics-of-postmodernity-essays-in-applied-hermeneutics-9789401038188","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}