Fraternity and Politics: Choosing One's Brothers - Couverture rigide

Baumann, Fred E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 027596292X ISBN 13 : 9780275962920

Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Baumann examines the recurring efforts to establish fraternal relations in modern societies by political, and in particular, radical means. He proceeds by examining a series of related examples, beginning with a brief discussion of the metaphor for fraternity itself, and then he turns to a consideration of the historical development of the quest for fraternity.

He first examines the quest for fraternity among the Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s. Baumann then turns to the sans-culottes before and during the period of the French Revolution. The third analysis is philosophical, rather than historical, and treats Jean-Paul Sartre's attempt to understand radically and thus justify the relation of fraternity to terror. His conclusion sums up the argument about the necessary self-contradiction and failure of the pursuit of political fraternity and points to the long-discarded concept of aesthetic education developed as an alternative to the political pursuit of fraternity by the poet and philospher Friedrich Schiller.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

FRED E. BAUMANN is Professor of Political Science at Kenyon College. He has edited a number of books and published a translation of Leo Strauss's Philosophie und Gesetz.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 027596292X
• ISBN 13: 9780275962920
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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