Radicalism and Reverence: The Political Thought of Gerrard Winstanley. George M. Shulman

Few of Giorgio Agamben’s works are as mysterious as his unpublished dissertation, reportedly on the political thought of the French philosopher Simone Weil. If Weil was an early subject of Agamben’s intellectual curiosity, it would appear – judging from his published works – that her influence upon him has been neither central nor lasting.1 Leland de la Durantaye argues that Weil’s work has left a mark on Agamben’s philosophy of potentiality, largely in his discussion of the concept of decreation; but de la Durantaye does not make much of Weil’s influence here, determining that her theory of decreation is ‘essentially dialectical’ and still too bound up with creation theology. 2 Alessia Ricciardi, however, argues that de la Durantaye’s dismissal of Weil’s influence is hasty.3 Ricciardi analyses deeper resonances between Weil’s and Agamben’s philosophies, ultimately claiming that Agamben ‘seems to extend many of the implications and claims of Weil’s idea of force’,4 arguably spreading Weil’s influence into Agamben’s reflections on sovereign power and bare life.

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The Political Thought of George Grant

Journal of Canadian Studies ◽

10.3138/jcs.26.2.46 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 46-68

Author(s):

H.D. Forbes

Keyword(s):

Political Thought ◽

The Political ◽

George Grant

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Entangling Plato: A Guide through the Political Theory Archive

Political Theory ◽

10.1177/0090591721998073 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 009059172199807

Author(s):

Liam Klein ◽

Daniel Schillinger

Keyword(s):

Political Theory ◽

Political Thought ◽

The Political ◽

Athenian Democracy

Political theorists have increasingly sought to place Plato in active dialogue with democracy ancient and modern by examining what S. Sara Monoson calls “Plato’s democratic entanglements.” More precisely, Monoson, J. Peter Euben, Arlene Saxonhouse, Christina Tarnopolsky, and Jill Frank approach Plato as both an immanent critic of the Athenian democracy and a searching theorist of self-governance. In this guide through the Political Theory archive, we explore “entanglement approaches” to the study of Plato, outlining their contribution to our understanding of Plato’s political thought and to the discipline of political theory.

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