Hans SlugaPolitics and the Search for the Common Good
Hans Sluga is William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Gottlob Frege (1980), Heidegger's Crisis, Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany (1994) and Wittgenstein (2011). He is also the editor of The Philosophy of Frege (1993) and the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein (with David Stern, Cambridge, 1996).
Introduction
Preface
Part I. The Search for the Common Good: Beyond the Normative and the Natural: 1. From normative theory to diagnostic practice
2. The failings of political naturalism
3. The historization of politics
4. 'The time is coming when we will have to relearn about politics'
Part II. Three Diagnostic Thinkers in Pursuit of the Common Good: 5. Carl Schmitt: 'all essential concepts are not normative but existential'
6. Hannah Arendt: 'does politics still have a meaning?'
7. Michel Foucault: 'could you define the sense you give the word 'political'?'
Part III. The Fragility of the Common Good: 8. 'A fundamental change in political paradigms'
9. Politics as a domain of uncertainty
Bibliography
Index.
