The Active Life: Miller's Metaphysics Of Democracy (Suny Series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences) - Couverture souple

Mcgandy, Michael J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791465381 ISBN 13 : 9780791465387

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2005

Synopsis

A sustained reflection on philosopher John William Miller and the metaphysical presuppositions and implications of democracy.

The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative lives is taken up in this innovative and wide-ranging examination of John William Miller's effort to forge a metaphysics of democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Miller's actualist philosophy-its scope, its systematic character, and its dialectical form. Michael J. McGandy persuasively sets Miller's actualism in the context of Hannah Arendt's understanding of the active life and skillfully presents actualism as a response to Whitman's challenge to craft a democratic form of metaphysics. McGandy concludes that Miller reveals how the philosophical and the political are inextricably connected, how there is no active life without the contemplative life, and that the contemplative life is founded in the active life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael J. McGandy is Associate Managing Editor for Norton Professional Books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791465381
• ISBN 13: 9780791465387
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252
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• Personne responsable: non disponible