The Temporality of Political Obligation

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-91550-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 451 g

Reihe: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

The Temporality of Political Obligation offers a critique and reconceptualization of the ways in which our political obligations – what we owe to political authorities and communities, and the reasons why we ought to obey their rules – have been traditionally conceptualized, justified, and contested.

Drawing from theories of time and temporality, Justin Mueller demonstrates some of the unacknowledged assumptions and theoretical blind spots shared among these ostensibly opposed positions, and the problems and contradictions that this neglect of time poses. Enriching the literature on the philosophers Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, Mueller demonstrates how their theoretical frameworks on time can be used to analyze a political problem that is usually confined to the concerns of normative liberal democratic theory. Politically, this book provides readers with the means to better identify and analyze the diverse temporalities they encounter in everyday life, and better understand their experiences of them.

A welcomed and timely read which will be of interest to scholars involved in recent efforts to engage with the social and political dimensions and consequences of time and temporality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mueller, Justin Chandler

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Michael Weinstein Introduction: Time and Political Obligation 1. Time and Temporality 2. Modernity and Political Obligation 3. Vertical Time-Binding 4. Horizontal Time-Binding 5. Chronarchy and Obligation

Über Autor(innen)

Justin Mueller received his PhD in Political Science from Purdue University, and currently lectures at Northeastern University. His research interests include the intersection of time and politics, particularly surrounding questions of obligation, obedience, belonging, and freedom.