Class Ideology & Ancient Political Theory: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Social Context.

This research is marked by the (effect of the social context in the interpretation of literary texts and their interpretation of scholia, for example) this research stands when studying Arabic scholia in the light of one of the theories of modern language science, the political theory that was considered one of the most famous linguistic schools. Modern that can be applied to creative texts, and i have chosen scholia as a domain for application, because of the ambiguity of these scholia at times, and the lack of interconnection between them and the request made at other times, which requires a reference to the social context that produced them in order to understand them better, focusing to know the elements of the context of the situation in the understanding and interpretation of literary texts.

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Contextualist political theory about multiculturalism in a post-multiculturalist context

Ethnicities ◽

10.1177/1468796820964304 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 146879682096430

Author(s):

Sune Lægaard

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Political Theory ◽

General Problem ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Critical Distance ◽

Political Opposition ◽

Political Reality ◽

Contextualist Approach ◽

Political Principles ◽

Point Of Departure

Many theorists of multiculturalism have proposed contextualism as an approach particularly suited for theorizing multiculturalism. The so-called Bristol School of Multiculturalism (BSM) is characterized by a ‘bottom up’ and claims-based approach eschewing appeal to abstract political principles. Tariq Modood has articulated this contextualist approach as a version of Michael Oakeshott’s idea of politics as ‘the pursuit of intimations’. The question is how such an approach fares when applied to the specific political and social context characteristic of, especially European, political reality of the last 10–15 years. Political opposition to multiculturalism at ideological and rhetorical levels has characterized this context. At the legal level, many of the laws and rules in place actually protecting minority groups have furthermore not had the form of group rights or policies of recognition proposed by multiculturalist theories. The question therefore arises whether a contextualist approach that takes its point of departure in the facts of such a context can deliver a justification of a recognizable multiculturalist political theory. This is a version of the general problem of critical distance facing contextualism. Modood’s version of the approach appeals to the internal diversity of traditions to answer this problem. However, this leads to additional questions about the nature of the theory and the way in which it is action-guiding. Consideration of these questions qualifies the understanding of in which sense the BSM approach is contextual.

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