Subjects and Publics

EGS Philosophy MA Draft Outline

• Introduction
• Part I: The Failure of the Philosophical Subject
  • Chapter 1: Elitists and Populists
  • Chapter 2: The Pose of True Belief
  • Chapter 3: Philosophy as technique
  • Chapter 4: Philosophy as communities of practice
  • Chapter 5: Theology and atheology
• Part II: Myths of Our Age
  • Chapter 6: Progress and its Discontents
  • Chapter 7: The Cult of the State
  • Chapter 8: Vestigial Moralism
• Part III: A Copernican Revolution of Politics
  • Chapter 9: A Plurality of Publics
  • Chapter 10: The Powers and the Selectorate
  • Chapter 11: Political Ecology
• Part IV: The Collapse of Westphalia
  • Chapter 12 States without Nations
  • Chapter 13: On Geographic Determinism
  • Chapter 14: Suzerains
  • Chapter 15: The Federated Subject
• Part V: Interventions
  • Chapter 16: Outer Kingliness, Inner Sageliness
  • Chapter 17: Acting
  • Chapter 18: Political Thaumaturgy
  • Chapter 19: New Gods
• Postscript