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Political Philosophy: What It Is and Why It Matters - Couverture rigide

Beiner, Ronald

 
9781107069954: Political Philosophy: What It Is and Why It Matters
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ISBN 10 : 1107069955 ISBN 13 : 9781107069954
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 constitutes the authentic good for human beings. Who are these epic theorists, and what are their strengths and weaknesses? Beiner selects a dozen leading candidates: Arendt, Oakeshott, Strauss, Löwith, Voegelin, Weil, Gadamer, Habermas, Foucault, MacIntyre, Rawls, and Rorty. In each case, he shows both why the political philosophies continue to be intellectually compelling and why they are problematic or can be challenged in various ways. In this sense, Political Philosophy attempts to draw up a balance sheet for political philosophy in the twentieth century, by identifying a canon of towering contributions and reviewing the extent to which they fulfil their intellectual aspirations.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ronald Beiner is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the editor of Hannah Arendt: Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy (1982) and the author of Political Judgment (1983); What's the Matter with Liberalism? (1992), which was awarded the Canadian Political Science Association's C. B. Macpherson Prize in 1994; Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit (1997); Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship (2003); and Civil Religion (Cambridge, 2011).

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107069955
ISBN 13 
9781107069954
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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