Critical Political Theory : Interrogating Contemporary Politics / Oliver Flügel-Martinsen ; translated by Michael Thomas Taylor.

1. Introduction.

2. Critical Interrogation, Negative Critique, and Contingency: Outlining a Critical Theory of the Political.

3. Beyond Truth? Truth Skepticism and the Horizons of Radical Democracy.

4. Neoliberal Hegemony? The Politics of Necessity and the Rise of Right‐Wing Populism.

5. The Ongoing and Renewed Rise of Essentialist Politics of Exclusion: Essentialist Strategies for Excluding the Other.

6. A World of Borders and the Suppressed Issue of Global Injustice.

Postscript: Revisiting the Connection Between Theory and Practice?

How can political theory strengthen democracy and emancipatory social change while remaining critical of its own norms and foundations? How can it confront populist movements that claim to defend democracy but in fact advance authoritarian agendas? Oliver Flügel-Martinsen engages with key thinkers of the political among them M. Foucault, J. Derrida, C. Lefort, C. Mouffe, I. M. Young, J. Rancière, W. Brown, R. Geuss, A. Mbembe, and J. Butler to address these challenges. Revisiting truth-skeptical approaches, neoliberal hegemony, exclusions in the name of an essentialist understanding of the people, and global injustices, he explores how critical theory can help us escape the present in working toward a different future.

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