Crisis of Authority

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-107-55184-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

Contemporary social and political theory has reached an impasse about a problem that had once seemed straightforward: how can individuals make ethical judgments about power and politics? Crisis of Authority analyzes the practices that bind authority, trust and truthfulness in contemporary theory and politics. Drawing on newly available archival materials, Nancy Luxon locates two models for such practices in Sigmund Freud's writings on psychoanalytic technique and Michel Foucault's unpublished lectures on the ancient ethical practices of 'fearless speech', or parrhesia. Luxon argues that the dynamics provoked by the figures of psychoanalyst and truth-teller are central to this process. Her account offers a more supple understanding of the modern ethical subject and new insights into political authority and authorship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luxon, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Authority and its discontents; 2. Risk and resistance; 3. Conversations with the unknown; 4. What is an author(ity)?; 5. The authorial subject; 6. Audiences and the proliferation of meaning; 7. Breaking the frame, composing the event.

Über Autor(innen)

Luxon, Nancy
Nancy Luxon is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She has also published several articles based on her archival research at the Foucault archives in Caen and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.