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Politics: Politics is the process of making decisions in groups. It is about how people come together to allocate resources, settle disputes, and make choices about how to live together. See also Democracy, Society._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Terence Ball on Politics - Dictionary of Arguments
Gaus I 22 Politics/Psychoanalysis/psychoanalytical interpretation/Ball: One can supply psychoanalytic interpretations not only of dreams but of all sorts of texts – including those in political theory. This has been done in the case of Machiavelli (Pitkin, 1984)(1), Edmund Burke (Kramnick, 1977)(2), Martin Luther (Erikson, 1958)(3) and Mahatma Gandhi (Erikson, 1969)(4), among others. I want to look, more particularly, at Bruce Mazlish’s (1975)(5) psychoanalytic interpretation of themes in the work of John Stuart Mill. Mill is most famous as the author of On Liberty (1859)(6) in which he argues in favour of a very wide sphere of personal freedom to live one’s life as one wishes, without undue interference from others, no matter how well-meaning those others may be. BallVsMazlish: Mazlish interprets On Liberty less as a work of liberal political theory than as a cri de coeur and a declaration of personal independence that is more autobiographical than analytical (perhaps that’s what Nietzsche meant when he said that all theory is autobiography). This is not what Mill consciously intended; (...) >J. St. Mill. 1. Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel (1984) Fortune is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolo Machiavelli. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2. Kramnick, Isaac (1977) The Rage of Edmund Burke. New York: Basic. 3. Erikson, Erik (1958) Young Man Luther. New York: Norton. 4. Erikson, Erik (1969) Gandhi’s Truth. New York: Norton. 5. Mazlish, Bruce (1975) James and John Stuart Mill: Father and Son in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Basic. 6. Locke, John (1960 [1690]) Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Ball, Terence. 2004. „History and the Interpretation of Texts“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ball, Terence Gaus I Gerald F. Gaus Chandran Kukathas Handbook of Political Theory London 2004 |