Facing the Present in Political Philosophy

这个项目分析了政治哲学（PP）今天可以为理解“现在”提供的贡献——被认为是“谈论它的哲学家所属的哲学事件”（福柯，2010）。第一章分析了新自由主义学术界，即今天大多数哲学政治思想产生的地方，并询问它是否以及如何将政治哲学家作为认知工作者。第2章将分析性PP作为该主题中目前占主导地位的一股，质疑它与当前哲学事件相关的方式。第3章对PP和政治理论之间的区别提出了质疑，认为它对两者都有负面影响——允许政治哲学家忽视当下作为一个哲学问题，允许政治理论家专注于当下，而将其哲学含义放在一边。第四章试图通过阅读福柯对这些概念的理解，重申PP作为批判和直言（讲真话）实例的价值。第5章询问PP作为对当下和直言的批判是否可以在新自由主义学术界的背景下进行。

This project analyzes the contribution political philosophy (PP) can offer today for understanding the present - conceived as "a philosophical event to which the philosopher who speaks of it belongs" (Foucault 2010). Chapter 1 analyzes neoliberal academia, where most of philosophicalpolitical thought is today produced, and asks whether and how it conditions political philosophers as cognitive workers. Chapter 2 deals with Analytic PP as the currently dominant strand within the subject, questioning the ways in which itrelates to the philosophical event of the present. Chapter 3 problematizes the distinction between PP and political theory, arguing that it has negative implications for both - allowing political philosophers to neglect the present as a philosophical issue and political theorists to focus on the present while putting its philosophical implications aside. Chapter 4 tries to reaffirm the value of PP as an instance of critique and parrhesia (truth-telling), through a reading of the Foucault's understanding of these concepts. Chapter 5 asks whether PP as a critique of the present and parrhesia can be pursued in the context of neoliberal academia.