This book provides an important overview and valuable new perspectives on what political theory can bring to the debates about climate change.
Frank Vander Valk is Associate Professor of Political Science and Western Civilization at the State University of New York, Empire State College. His research interests include political friendship, the philosophy of social science, and Catholic social thought.
Notes on Contributors
p. vii
Acknowledgements
p. x
Introduction
p. 1
History and Concepts
p. 23
On the growing intellectual authority of neuroscience for political and moral theory: Sketch for a genealogy
p. 25
Neuroscience as applied hermeneutics: Towards a critical neuroscience of political theory
p. 50
Descartes on moral judgment and the power of the passions
p. 74
Unpacking emotional baggage in political inquiry
p. 91
Neuroscience and Political Thinkers
p. 117
Brain sculpting as moral practice: A neuro-Aristotelian approach
p. 119
Hobbes, prudence, and neuroscience: Early modern strategies for negotiating contemporary subjectivity
p. 140
Think big: Toward a grand neuropolitics - or, Why I am not an immanent naturalist or vital materialist
p. 156
The neuropolitical habitus of resonant receptive democracy
p. 178
Issues in Neuroscience and Political Theory
p. 199
Does deliberation make you angry? Neuroscience and theories of deliberative democracy
p. 201
Bounded mirroring: Joint action and group membership in political theory and cognitive neuroscience
p. 222
The extension of political subjectivity
p. 249
The challenge of gender research in neuroscience
p. 268
Index
p. 288
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