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Bray, Bernard. and Chappell, Larry. "On Resisting Politics for Humanity" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62933_index.html>

Bray, B. L. and Chappell, L. , 2003-08-27 "On Resisting Politics for Humanity" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p62933_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This study addresses the post-modern challenge to the idea of humanity. Postmodernists such as Foucault reject political appeals to humanity arguing that they deploy suspect metaphysical and ontological notions to mask domination. We share these postmodern suspicions of robust ontologies and the suspicions of political power that accompany them. Nevertheless, we think that the idea of humanity is worth preserving. We do not pursue the traditional aims of political theorists by grounding politics in a strong ontology or metaphysics of human nature. Instead, we ask how to resist politics on behalf of humanity. We begin by explicating two conceptions of politics while accepting both the perils and dignity of political action. We then elaborate notions of resistance that would prevent politics from consuming all of our lives. We present four ways of affirming humanity on whose behalf we might engage in resistance. We conclude by exploring the ambiguity of resistance and the fragility of the humanity we hope to defend from politics.

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