Temporality of Political Obligation

Taylor & Francis

The Temporality of Political ObligationAuthor(s): Justin Chandler Mueller\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138915503, 978-1138915503\nSynopsis\nThe Temporality of Political Obligation offers a critique and reconceptualization of the ways in which our political obligations what we owe to political authorities and communities, and the reasons why we ought to obey their rules have been traditionally conceptualized, justified, and contested. \n\nDrawing from theories of time and temporality, Justin Mueller demonstrates some of the unacknowledged assumptions and theoretical blind spots shared among these ostensibly opposed positions, and the problems and contradictions that this neglect of time poses. Enriching the literature on the philosophers Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, Mueller demonstrates how their theoretical frameworks on time can be used to analyze a political problem that is usually confined to the co.