Fraternity And Politics: Choosing One*s Brothers

Baumann, Fred E.

ISBN 10: 027596292X / ISBN 13: 9780275962920

Edité par Praeger, 1998

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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.

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 bibliographiques

Titre : Fraternity And Politics: Choosing One*s ...
Éditeur : Praeger
Date d'édition : 1998
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : New