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Creativity and Limitation in Political Communities: Spinoza, Schmitt and Ordering

Creativity and Limitation in Political Communities: Spinoza, Schmitt and Ordering

Kalpokas, Ignas

Paperback

Series: Rethinking Political and International Theory

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1032242086
ISBN13: 9781032242088
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 13 2021
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

There is an inherent tension between popular and establishment powers in political communities. With anti-establishment sentiment on the rise across Western democracies, exploring the underpinnings of this dualism and rethinking theories of political life within states is of paramount importance. By combining the theories of Carl Schmitt and Benedict Spinoza, this book develops a framework of continuous reproduction, whereby the two powers simultaneously hold one another in tension and supersede one another. In the same vein, political communities are shown to be perpetually caught in a cycle of creativity/contestation, derived primarily from Schmitt (the tragic groundlessness of politics) and limitation (derived primarily from Spinoza as a quasi-theological belief in the status quo).

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