Political philosophy : what it is and why it matters /
What is political philosophy? Ronald Beiner makes the case that it is centrally defined by supremely ambitious reflection on the ends of life. We pursue this reflection by exposing ourselves to, and participating in, a perennial dialogue among epic theorists who articulate grand visions of what cons...
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| Published: | New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
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Table of Contents:
- First prologue: horizons of political reflection
- Second prologue: Freud, Weber, and political philosophy
- Hannah Arendt: the performativity of politics
- Michael Oakeshott: life's adventure
- Leo Strauss: the politics of philosophy
- Karl Löwith: in awe of the cosmos
- Excursus on nature and history in the Strauss-Lö̈with correspondence
- Eric Voegelin: modernity's vortex
- Simone Weil: the politics of the soul
- Hans-Georg Gadamer: philosophy without hubris
- Jürgen Habermas: politics as rational discourse
- Michel Foucault's carceral society
- Alasdair MacIntyre: fragmentation and wholeness
- Short excursus on the rise and decline of communitarianism as a political philosophy
- John Rawls and the death of political philosophy
- Richard Rorty: knocking philosophy off its pedestal; or, the death of political philosophy postmodernized.