Modern Discourses on the Political

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One of the distinguishing aspects of the 20th century political thought is the apparent plurality and diversity in dealing with the meaning of the political. Such diversity is rich in attributing various contents to the category of the political and the differences among these approaches cannot easily be reduced anymore to the contours of 19th century ideologies of liberalism, conservatism and marxism. Is there a specific and independent realm called the political that can be differentiated from the economical, cultural or ideological?