Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts

✍ Scribed by Michael Marder

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Michael Marder proposes a new methodology for political science and philosophy, one which he terms “categorial thinking.” Under this lens, the political appears not as a singular concept but as a family of categories, allowing room for new, plural, and often antagonistic ideas about the state, the people, sovereignty, and power.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
1. Political Categories
2. The initial Approach: Aristotle
3. The Second Look: Kant
4. The Categories "at Work"
Appendix 1. Aristotle’s Categories— a Political Interpretation
Appendix 2. Kant’s “Transcendental Analytic” (Critique of Pure Reason)— a Political Interpretation
Notes
Bibliography
Index