An Interview with Bonnie Honig

by Gary Browning for Contemporary Political Theory

Bonnie, the editors of Contemporary Political Theory were very enthusiastic to secure an interview with you and to enable readers to find out about your intellectual development and current thinking, so many thanks for agreeing to this interview. Your approach to political theory is notable for its valorization of politics. Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (1993) argues for the ongoing contestation of the rules and arrangements framing political activity and argues against theoretical ploys to reduce politics to underlying forms of communal consensus, law or reason. Would you elaborate on why you take politics and contestation of the ground rules and principles to be of such significance.

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