Critique and ontological politics

An Ontological Critique of Critical Geopolitics in Gearóid Ó Tuathail and Simon Dalby

Introduction: Philosophical research in the study of political geography in Iran is very limited. Among the existing cases, we encounter a kind of theoretical confusion that results from a lack of sufficient scientific and philosophical accuracy. Therefore, this study seeks to address the critical philosophical geopolitical critique in the writings of Ó Tuathail and Dalby by pointing out the ne...

Politics and Philosophy in Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Laws

Marcuse's Aesthetic Politics: Ideology-critique and Socialist Ontology

art contains the sensuous appearance of the Idea, the symbol of a rationality of reason that is beyond words [1], Art was not language for Hegel because it is non-discursive; it gave form to hidden, ineffable content. Marcuse in his later work came to regard art as the last refiige of critical insights in a totally mobilized society. In his last book, The Aesthetic Dimension (1978), he rejoins ...

Marion Fourcade The Politics of Method and Its Agentic , Performative , and Ontological Others

The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences is an extraordinary book. It is extraordinary for the sheer amount of intellectual ground covered in the individual chapters and for its significance. By historicizing and provincializing each human science in turn, The Politics of Method opens the door to a true reflexivity, which is the necessary condition for what Michael Burawoy (2005: 511) calls...

Intentionality, Politics, And Religion

The idea that intentionality is the distinctive mark of the mental or that only mental phenomena have intentionality emerged in the philosophical tradition after Franz Brentano. Much of contemporary philosophy is dedicated to a rejection of the view that mental phenomena have original intentionality. In other words, main strands of contemporary philosophy seek to naturalize intentionality of th...