EAN: 9781349848652

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL THEORY POLITICAL ONTO...

This book challenges received notions of ontology in political theory and international
relations by offering a psychoanalytically informed critique of depoliticisation in prominent
liberal  post-liberal  dialogic and agonistic approaches to pluralism in world politics.
Paipais locates the temptation of depoliticisation in their labouring under the fundamental
fantasy of various guises of foundationalism (in the form of either political anthropology or
ontology as 'in the last instance' ground) or  conversely  anti-foundationalism (the denial of
all grounds  yet still operating within a foundationalist imaginary). He argues  instead  for a
formal political ontology of the void (against historicism) shot through an 'incarnate'
messianic nihilism (against ethicism and teleological forms of politics). In so doing  the
author offers critical readings of the messianic nihilism of Benjamin  Agamben  Taubes and
Zizek by problematising the antinomian tendencies in their respective politicaltheologies. The
book argues for a version of Zizek's Badiouian politics of militancy supplemented by a proper
participatory understanding of St Paul's messianic meontology and incarnational Christology as
a means to reconceptualise the nexus between subjectivity  universality and political action in
world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations
theory  political theory  critical social theory and political theology.

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