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Scott Warren?s ambitious and enduring work sets out to resolve the ongoing identity crisis of contemporary political inquiry. In the Emergence of Dialectical Theory, Warren begins with a careful analysis of the philosophical foundations of dialectical theory in the thought of Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He then examines how the dialectic functions in the major twentieth-century philosophical movements of existentialism, phenomenology, neomarxism, and critical theory. Numerous major and minor philosophers are discussed, but the emphasis falls on two of the greatest dialectical thinkers of the previo.

Cover -- 1. Introduction -- Outline of the course of the argument -- 2. Ideal theory and idealization -- 2.1 The output of ideal theory: ideal principles and ideal institutions -- 2.2 The input of ideal theory: empirical and moral construction assumptions -- The first type: conceptions of the person -- The second type: idealized assumptions in thought experiments -- The third type: idealization regarding the range of outcomes being considered -- The fourth type: idealization in the sense of assuming moral ideals -- The fifth type: Idealization as assuming away feasibility restrictions -- Part I: Empirical restrictions in political philosophy -- 3. Nonideal theory and the ideal guidance approach -- 3.1 The practical relevance of ideal theory -- 3.1.1 "Clinical theory" as an alternative to the ideal guidance approach -- 3.1.2 The critique of the ideal guidance approach -- The problem of the second-best -- The legitimacy critique -- 3.2 A reasonable compromise? -- 4. Dimensions of feasibility -- 4.1 Institutional design -- 4.2 Dimensions of feasibility -- 4.2.1 Technical feasibility and accessibility -- 4.2.2 Modal dimensions of feasibility restrictions -- 4.2.3 Ontological dimensions of feasibility restrictions -- 4.3 Mapping different approaches to normative theory -- 5. Constructing ideal institutions for the ideal guidance approach -- 5.1 Principles for designing institutions and the status quo bias -- 5.2 The importance of long-term consequences for evaluating incremental reform options -- 5.3 Do we need ideal theory? -- 5.4 Feasibility in the construction of ideal institutions -- Part II: Moral ideals in political philosophy -- 6. Geuss' critique of ideal theory: moral construction assumptions in the focus -- 6.1 Geuss' conception of critical political philosophy -- 6.2 Geuss' critique of ideal theory.

Benedict Spinoza is widely regarded as a major figure in the history of philosophy and a minor figure in the history of political philosophy. This judgment has merit. Spinoza's political writings do not approach his Ethics in originality, penetration or influence; nor do they compare well with the writings of the great political philosophers. Nevertheless, Spinoza's political writings reveal keen insights into problems of liberal thought. His contribution to liberal thought involves attempt to reconcile a Hobbesian conception of authority and an apparent commitment to a wide range of civil liberties.

Scott Warren's ambitious and enduring work sets out to resolve the ongoing identity crisis of contemporary political inquiry. In the Emergence of Dialectical Theory, Warren begins with a careful analysis of the philosophical foundations of dialectical theory in the thought of Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He then examines how the dialectic functions in the major twentieth-century philosophical movements of existentialism, phenomenology, neomarxism, and critical theory. Numerous major and minor philosophers are discussed, but the emphasis falls on two of the greatest dialectical thinkers of the previo

This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy. It demonstrates how this relationship gives expression to a basic tension at the core of politics: that between the contingency of its happening and the transcendence toward which it strives. The first part of the study proposes a reassessment of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and rhetoric, as it was discussed by Plato, Aristotle, and above all Cicero and Quintilian, who ambitiously attempted to bring them together creating an ideal that is at the roots of the humanist tradition. It then moves to twentieth-century political theory and shows how the questions that emerge from that quarrel still strongly resonate in the works of key thinkers such as H. Arendt, L. Strauss, and R. Rorty. The volume thus offers an original contribution that locates itself at the intersection of politics, rhetoric, and philosophy.

Im Anschluss an John Rawls entwickelt der Autor eine praktisch-politisch relevante und kritische Konzeption idealer Theorie. Dies erfolgt auf der Grundlage einer Auseinandersetzung mit der Kritik an idealer Theorie durch Autoren wie Amartya Sen und Raymond Geuss. Als Antwort auf Sen wird eine Konzeption von Machbarkeitsrestriktionen für ideale Theorie entwickelt, insbesondere für die Konstruktion idealer institutioneller Gesellschaftsentwürfe. Als Antwort auf Geuss werden konstruktivistische Ansätze zur Konstruktion normativer Theorien diskutiert und für eine Konzeption idealtheoretischen Denkens argumentiert, die eine kritische Perspektive auf den Status Quo erlaubt.