01956 a2200385 4500 1317212401 20250317111627.0 250312042017GB eng 9781317212409 Taylor & Francis GBP 47.99 BB 01 eng JPA thema JPHV thema QDHM thema QDTS thema QDHR thema QDTN thema JPA bic JPHV bic HPCD1 bic HPS bic HPCF bic HPN bic POL000000 bisac PHI000000 bisac PHI019000 bisac 321.8 bisac Stephen Acreman Political Theory and the Enlarged Mentality 1 Oxford Routledge 20171020 128 p In this book, Stephen Acreman follows the development and reception of a hitherto under-analyzed concept central to modern and postmodern political theory: the Kantian ein erweiterte Denkungsart , or enlarged mentality. While the enlarged mentality plays a major role in a number of key texts underpinning contemporary democratic theory, including works by Arendt, Gadamer, Habermas, and Lyotard, this is the first in-depth study of the concept encompassing and bringing together its full range of expressions. A number of attempts to place the enlarged mentality at the service of particular ideals–the politics of empathy, of consensus, of agonistic contest, or of moral righteousness–are challenged and redirected. In its exploration of the enlarged mentality, the book asks what it means to assume a properly political stance, and, in giving as the answer ‘facing reality together’, it uncovers a political theory attentive to the facts and events that concern us, and uniquely well suited to the ecological politics of our time. 6393 6393