Alison McQueen

Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times

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Produktbeschreibung

Apocalyptic rhetoric creates dangerous politics; three great thinkers show how clear-eyed realism is our best hope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781107152397
• ISBN-10: 1107152399
• Artikelnr.: 48813782

Autorenporträt

Alison McQueen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, California. She writes on the history of political thought, religion in early modern political thought, and political realism. Her work has been published in the Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, European Journal of Political Theory, Political Theory, and Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy. She is the recipient of the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in political philosophy (2012). She has held fellowships at Princeton's University Center for Human Values and the Stanford Humanities Center.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Understanding the apocalypse
3. Machiavelli's Savonarolan moment
4. Hobbes 'At the Edge of Promises and Prophecies'
5. Morgenthau and the postwar apocalypse
6. Conclusion.