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      <field key="037" subkey="x">englisch</field>
      <field key="050" subkey="x">Forschungsbericht</field>
      <field key="076" subkey="">Politikwissenschaft</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="y">http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_15.pdf</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="z">Johnson, James, The Politics of Possibility (pdf)</field>
      <field key="100" subkey="">Johnson, James</field>
      <field key="103" subkey="">University of Rochester, New York</field>
      <field key="331" subkey="">The Politics of Possibility</field>
      <field key="335" subkey="">Symbol, Strategy and Power</field>
      <field key="403" subkey="">1. Ed.</field>
      <field key="410" subkey="">Wien</field>
      <field key="412" subkey="">Institut für Höhere Studien</field>
      <field key="425" subkey="">1994, October</field>
      <field key="433" subkey="">15 pp.</field>
      <field key="451" subkey="">Institut für Höhere Studien; Reihe Politikwissenschaft; 15</field>
      <field key="461" subkey="">Political Science Series</field>
      <field key="544" subkey="">IHSPW 15</field>
      <field key="753" subkey="">Abstract: In this paper I address, in a preliminary way, a problem of political theory that, while not new, has been brought home</field>
      <field key="wit" subkey="h">special urgency by recent events. The problem is the predicament created by the imperative of coming to terms withthe</field>
      <field key="sub" subkey="j">ect of political possibility and the concomitant difficulty of doing so. The argument of this paper is circuitous. I first</field>
      <field key="arg" subkey="u">e that grappling with the subject of political possibility requires that we examine the intimate relation of symbol and</field>
      <field key="str" subkey="a">tegy in politics. I draw a crucial distinction between the ways that the ability to calculate probabilities and to entertain</field>
      <field key="pos" subkey="s">ibilities enters into social and political interaction. I than identify the mechanisms - attention and imagination - at work</field>
      <field key="in" subkey="t">he ways symbolic forms govern our ability to envision possibilities. I show how political possibility is implicated with</field>
      <field key="pow" subkey="e">r. And I sketch some of the constraints and vicissitudes that make the politics of possibility a precariousenterprise. I</field>
      <field key="con" subkey="c">lude by briefly connecting my preceding analysis to the theme of antipolitics.;</field>
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