Overview
Focuses on the idea of a modus vivendi as a way of governing political life
Illustrates both the merits and the limitations of a political theory of modus vivendi
Discusses how to deal politically with problems characterized by pluralism or deep-rooted diversity
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (15 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Modus Vivendi, Liberalism and Realism
-
Front Matter
-
-
Modus Vivendi and Legitimacy
-
Front Matter
-
-
Modus Vivendi and Political Practice
-
Front Matter
-
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Manon Westphal is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics at the University of Muenster. Her research focuses on political theory and democratic theory. She is particularly interested in pluralism, agonism and the political regulation of normative disagreement. In her doctoral thesis, she examined how agonistic conceptions of politics influence considerations about institutional design. Recent publications include “What bonds citizens in a pluralistic democracy? Probing Mouffe’s notion of a conflictual consensus”, in: Knoll, Manuel/Snyder, Stephen/Șimşek, Nurdane (eds.): Justice Beyond Consensus: Distributive Solutions to the Problems of Pluralism and Conflict. Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter (forthcoming); “Jenseits des Konsens-Ideals: Deliberation in der agonalen Demokratie“, in: Schmalz-Bruns, Rainer/Landwehr, Claudia (eds.): Deliberative Demokratie in der Diskussion. Herausforderungen, Bewährungsproben, Kritik. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2014, 305-337.
Ulrich Willems is Professor of Political Theory at the Department Political Science at the University of Muenster. He is also Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics in pre-modern and modern times”, Director of the “Centre for Religion and Modernity” and a member of the “Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioethics”, all located at the University of Muenster. Prior to Muenster he taught at Darmstadt University of Technology and the University of Hamburg. His research interests include political theory, political pluralism, democracy and pluralism, interest groups, politics and religion, and morality policy, especially biopolitics. He is author of Value Conflicts as a Challenge to Democracy (Springer VS 2015, in German) and Development, Interests and Morality: The Development Policy of the Protestant Church of Germany (Leske + Budrich, 1998, in German) as well as co-editor of “Modernity and Religion” (Transcript 2013, in German), Politics and Contingency (Springer VS 2012, in German), Interest Intermediation in Policy Fields (VS 2009, in German) and Interest Groups in Germany (VS 2007, in German).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi
Editors: John Horton, Manon Westphal, Ulrich Willems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79078-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79077-0Published: 24 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07721-1Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-79078-7Published: 10 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 272
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Democracy