Jonathan F Lancelot

The Postmodern Philosopher-King Jonathan F Lancelot

Politics enters most aspects of human life, yet it is a subject that is least understood and highly abused. Jonathan Lancelot, a Master of Diplomacy from Norwich Military College, attempts to share his experience of politics through philosophy, and from a perspective of realpolitik. The book's design has new students of politics and the general public in mind and not made to sit deep on a shelf in a university out of reach. If politics in our postmodern world is anything, it is the practice of navigating the distribution of power, and how it directly affects our existence. Politics is not just a study of governance and history; it is a study of human institutions, communication, society, and at its worst, warfare. The Postmodern Philosopher-King is a thought-provoking book that shares the perspective of a scholar who is a philosopher and teacher willing to push the boundaries of understanding to reach a consensus. Partisanship, ideology, and legalistic perfection is a detrimental approach to public deliberations that affect the lives of millions. Political institutions, nation-states, and sovereignty are not tangible political things; even laws are not able to be seen as a geometric object. Therefore, if this is the case, political parties and ideology are illusionary. What does that mean? Jonathan Lancelot's book is the beginning of a new movement of political philosophy in the cyber age.