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  • noun The doctrine that moral or legal precepts are the product of decisions made by political or legal bodies

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Examples

  • Unlike de Sá, Mika Ojakangas subscribes to what Louis Althusser would have called "an epistemological break" in Schmitt's corpus, expressed in the turn from the decisionism of his early thought to the institutionalism of his "mature" writings.

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  • Unlike de Sá, Mika Ojakangas subscribes to what Louis Althusser would have called "an epistemological break" in Schmitt's corpus, expressed in the turn from the decisionism of his early thought to the institutionalism of his "mature" writings.

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  • The major philosophical problem with Being and Time is not decisionism, however, but the transposition of the individual “resolute decision” onto the “historical destiny” of social collectives.

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  • The major philosophical problem with Being and Time is not decisionism, however, but the transposition of the individual “resolute decision” onto the “historical destiny” of social collectives.

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  • The question of decisionism needs to be confronted directly.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • The question of decisionism needs to be confronted directly.

    The phobia for religion and politics should melt Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • What is decided then is decided by experts and their media outlets/mouthpieces embedding their own social-moral-political views via a process Habermas calls “decisionism.” i.e.

    The validity claim of the subjective is sincerity. Lies have to do with subjectivity Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • What is decided then is decided by experts and their media outlets/mouthpieces embedding their own social-moral-political views via a process Habermas calls “decisionism.” i.e.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • He accepts Schmitt's view of the irreducibility of the political decision to any anterior structure but turns decisionism on its head.

    Kant and Carl Schmitt, Habermas and Derrida, Baudrillard and Badiou Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Your exception sires an exception from us; normally we don't engage rhodie discursive dung in this site: rhodie rhetorical mishaps --- blunders, really ---, rhodie defeatist decisionism, in short, rhodie NONSENSE rooted in the vapidity of the productive imagination of the bone dry ideological skeleton WE call "rhodism," a glaring symbol of hope lost and glory lost.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2009

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