Add to ORKGThe importance of imponderable elements on human affairs is well understood, at least since the dawn of Western culture. The reversals and incongruities of life are common events. Fortune and irony are categories of practical understanding, but they also describe the most ancient and fundamental experience in politics. It is this experience in which Michele Chiaruzzi analyzes the theory-policy nexus and examines Martin Wight's seminal philosophy. Martin Wight on Fortune and Irony in Politics provides awareness of imponderable factors in politics that tends to mitigate their role and is an antidote to political dogmatism
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It might, at first sight, seem objectionable to compare Kant and Rorty in terms of their respective ...
The study of political religion has focused on how religious structure and substance came to permeat...
The argument for the role of various crises of modernity in the totalitarian violence of the twentie...
The importance of imponderable elements on human affairs is well understood, at least since the dawn...
The idea that political action takes place in a volatile context, which con- strains decisions and a...
This dissertation considers the place of luck in political life through examination of the political...
The different responses in Great Britain and the United States to Martin Wight as a thinker of inter...
The article is devoted to the usage of irony in modern political discourse. Public speeches of moder...
This essay presents for the first time “Interest of States”, a text written by Martin Wight, one of ...
What follows is a set of paired articles, followed by a statement by both authors where they debate ...
ii Why have we spoken about irony so much for so long? What is at stake in the different ways it has...
The question of man’s directedness towards or longing for immortality is a theme in the work of many...
Satire is one of the literary genres that is used to mock or ridicule a person or thing. Satire also...
Contemporary politics seems to be saturated with irony. In the context of social movements, this cre...
What follows is a set of paired articles, followed by a statement by both authors where they debate ...
It might, at first sight, seem objectionable to compare Kant and Rorty in terms of their respective ...
The study of political religion has focused on how religious structure and substance came to permeat...
The argument for the role of various crises of modernity in the totalitarian violence of the twentie...