Difference and the concept of the political in contemporary political philosophy

Political Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 739-754

  O'Sullivan, Noël ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.00109     Document Type: Article

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1. I am indebted to conversations with Bhikhu Parekh, Matthew Festenstein, Thomas Pantham, Costas Constantinou and Henrik Sondergaard on many aspects of this paper. The final positions advanced are of course my own.
2. See, for example, A. Heller, 'On the Concept of the Political Revisited', in D. Held (ed.), Political Theory Today (Oxford, Polity, 1991), pp. 330-44; J. Butler and J. Scott (eds). Feminists Theorize the Political (New York, Routledge, 1992); C. Mouffe, The Return of the Political (London, Verso 1993); E. Frazer and N. Lacey, 'Politics and the public in Rawls' political liberalism', Political Studies, XLIII (1995), 233-47; B. Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (New York, Cornell University Press, 1993). There is, in addition, the extensive body of literature now devoted to Carl Schmitt's work on the concept of the political. On Schmitt, see for example P. Gottfried, Carl Schmitt (London, Claridge, 1990).
3. See, for example, A. Heller, 'On the Concept of the Political Revisited', in D. Held (ed.), Political Theory Today (Oxford, Polity, 1991), pp. 330-44; J. Butler and J. Scott (eds). Feminists Theorize the Political (New York, Routledge, 1992); C. Mouffe, The Return of the Political (London, Verso 1993); E. Frazer and N. Lacey, 'Politics and the public in Rawls' political liberalism', Political Studies, XLIII (1995), 233-47; B. Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (New York, Cornell University Press, 1993). There is, in addition, the extensive body of literature now devoted to Carl Schmitt's work on the concept of the political. On Schmitt, see for example P. Gottfried, Carl Schmitt (London, Claridge, 1990).
4. See, for example, A. Heller, 'On the Concept of the Political Revisited', in D. Held (ed.), Political Theory Today (Oxford, Polity, 1991), pp. 330-44; J. Butler and J. Scott (eds). Feminists Theorize the Political (New York, Routledge, 1992); C. Mouffe, The Return of the Political (London, Verso 1993); E. Frazer and N. Lacey, 'Politics and the public in Rawls' political liberalism', Political Studies, XLIII (1995), 233-47; B. Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (New York, Cornell University Press, 1993). There is, in addition, the extensive body of literature now devoted to Carl Schmitt's work on the concept of the political. On Schmitt, see for example P. Gottfried, Carl Schmitt (London, Claridge, 1990).
5. See, for example, A. Heller, 'On the Concept of the Political Revisited', in D. Held (ed.), Political Theory Today (Oxford, Polity, 1991), pp. 330-44; J. Butler and J. Scott (eds). Feminists Theorize the Political (New York, Routledge, 1992); C. Mouffe, The Return of the Political (London, Verso 1993); E. Frazer and N. Lacey, 'Politics and the public in Rawls' political liberalism', Political Studies, XLIII (1995), 233-47; B. Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (New York, Cornell University Press, 1993). There is, in addition, the extensive body of literature now devoted to Carl Schmitt's work on the concept of the political. On Schmitt, see for example P. Gottfried, Carl Schmitt (London, Claridge, 1990).
6. See, for example, A. Heller, 'On the Concept of the Political Revisited', in D. Held (ed.), Political Theory Today (Oxford, Polity, 1991), pp. 330-44; J. Butler and J. Scott (eds). Feminists Theorize the Political (New York, Routledge, 1992); C. Mouffe, The Return of the Political (London, Verso 1993); E. Frazer and N. Lacey, 'Politics and the public in Rawls' political liberalism', Political Studies, XLIII (1995), 233-47; B. Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (New York, Cornell University Press, 1993). There is, in addition, the extensive body of literature now devoted to Carl Schmitt's work on the concept of the political. On Schmitt, see for example P. Gottfried, Carl Schmitt (London, Claridge, 1990).
7. See, for example, Butler and Scott, Feminists Theorize the Political.
8. Mouffe, The Return of the Political, p. 147.
9. J. Rawls, A Theory of Justice (London, Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 139. Italics added.
10. J. Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York, Columbia University Press, 1993).
11. Rawls, Political Liberalism, p. xvii.
12. Frazer and Lacey have provides an excellent critique of the concept of the political as found in Political Liberalism in 'Politics and the public in Rawls' political liberalism'.
13. Rawls, Political Liberalism, p. 13.
14. Rawls, Political Liberalism, p. 37.
15. See, for example, S. Benhabib, 'Deliberative rationality and models of democratic legitimacy', Constellations, 1, (1994), no. 1, 26-52; J. Cohen, 'Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy', in A. Hamlin and P. Pettit (eds), The Good Polity, Normative Analysis of the State (Oxford, Blackwell), pp. 17-34; J. L. Cohen and A. Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory (Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1992).
16. See, for example, S. Benhabib, 'Deliberative rationality and models of democratic legitimacy', Constellations, 1, (1994), no. 1, 26-52; J. Cohen, 'Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy', in A. Hamlin and P. Pettit (eds), The Good Polity, Normative Analysis of the State (Oxford, Blackwell), pp. 17-34; J. L. Cohen and A. Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory (Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1992).
17. See, for example, S. Benhabib, 'Deliberative rationality and models of democratic legitimacy', Constellations, 1, (1994), no. 1, 26-52; J. Cohen, 'Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy', in A. Hamlin and P. Pettit (eds), The Good Polity, Normative Analysis of the State (Oxford, Blackwell), pp. 17-34; J. L. Cohen and A. Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory (Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1992).
18. Benhabib, 'Deliberative rationality and models of democratic legitimacy', p. 26.
19. Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics, p. 13.
20. Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics, p. 13.
21. Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics, p. 2.
22. Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics, p. 201.
23. Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics, p. 7.
24. Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics, p. 206.
25. W. Connolly, Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox (New York, Cornell University Press, 1991).
26. Connolly, Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox, p. 1.
27. Connolly, Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox, p. 94.
28. Mouffe, The Return of the Political, p. vii.
29. Mouffe, The Return of the Political, p. 7.
30. Mouffe, The Return of the Political, p. 7.
31. Mouffe, The Return of the Political, p. 67.
32. Mouffe, The Return of the Political, p. 67.
33. Mouffe, The Return of the Political, p. 67.
34. C. Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Cambridge, Polity, 1988); The Disorder of Women (Cambridge, Polity, 1989).
35. C. Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Cambridge, Polity, 1988); The Disorder of Women (Cambridge, Polity, 1989).
36. Quoted by Mouffe, The Return of the Political, p. 10, from an unpublished paper by Pateman. I am indebted to Mouffe's incisive thought at many points in this section of the paper.
37. Mouffe, The Return of the Political, p. 87.
38. Mouffe, The Return of the Political, p. 65.
39. Mouffe, The Return of the Political, esp. ch. 10. A good short introduction to Schmitt's thought, with a useful selective bibliography, has already been mentioned: Gottfried, Carl Schmitt. Mouffe is wrong, I think, when she insists that Oakeshott's model of civil association requires to be supplemented by the work of Carl Schmitt because Oakeshott is a purely consensual theorist of the political ('What is completely missing in Oakeshott is division and antagonism.' The Return of the Political, pp. 68-9). She is correct, however, in so far as she maintains that Oakeshott's model of civil association does not, and cannot, provide a complete account of the political. This, at any rate, is the interpretation of Oakeshott implicit in the position defended here.
40. Ernest Barker, Reflections on Government (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), esp. chs 10 and 13.