By Jonathan Floyd, Marc Stears
Is the way political philosophy is performed this present day too ahistorical? Does such ahistoricism render political philosophy too summary? Is political philosophy hence incapable of facing the realities of political lifestyles? This quantity brings jointly a number of the world's major political philosophers to deal with those an important questions. The participants concentration in particular on political philosophy's pretensions to universality and on its strained dating with the area of actual politics. a few chapters argue that political philosophers shouldn't be cowed by way of the accusations levied opposed to them from open air in their personal box. Others insist that those accusations require a dramatic reshaping of normative political notion. the quantity will spark controversy throughout political philosophy and past.
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33 Gadamer’s hermeneutic theory is a complex philosophical vision of the historicisation of human understanding that has implications for the nature and status of philosophical and all other claims. The precise details of his position are beyond the scope of this argument, but they are relevant at least in respect to the supposed challenge of history to philosophy in contemporary political theory, not least because Gadamer is concerned to deny the opposition. This has two consequences: first, it rules out the possibility of a philosophical metaphysic or meta-ethic that attempts to reach beyond the boundaries of historical experience, and secondly, as we have seen, it also removes the possibility of a negative ‘objectivism’ which denies the existence of real normative facts as part of the fabric of the world.
For Ricoeur, all texts and utterances contain, but are not exhausted by, the author’s particular intention in making the utterance. Meaning is mediated by the author and the reader within traditions of understanding that give utterances meaning above and beyond the intentions of the author. 26 The important point here is not that we now have two strands of meanings that are difficult to unravel, but that the idea of meaning itself is complex and multi-stranded and that there is no single pure or more authentic meaning.
That at least is what I propose to argue. The critique of historical reductionism in political theory – the solution The Collingwoodian turn from philosophy to history has been used to show not merely that history is of value in the pursuit of a viable political theory, but rather the more controversial claim that the attempt to reach beyond mere contingency through abstract reason must fail, as it merely reproduces the local prejudices of a particular society or culture as the dictates of reason.