Public Philosophy and Political Science

Crisis and Reflection
Herausgeber: Statham Jr, E. Robert

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Produktbeschreibung

The crisis of western civilization is a crisis of public philosophy. This is the charge of Public Philosophy and Political Science, a stunning new collection of essays edited by E. Robert Statham Jr. Vividly cataloging the decay of the moral and intellectual foundations of civic liberty, the book portrays a generation of Americans alienated from institutions built on public philosophy. The work exposes the failure of America's political scientists to acknowledge and understand this alarming crisis in the American body politic. The distinguished contributors examine the evolution of public philosophy; the inextricable relationship between politics and philosophy; and the interplay between public philosophy, the constitution, natural law, and government. They reveal the dire threat to deliberative democracy and the fundamental order of constitutional society posed by public philosophy's waning power to refine, cultivate, and civilize. The work is an indictment of a society which has discarded a way of life rooted in natural law, democracy and the traditions of civility; and is a denunciation of an educated elite that has divorced itself from the standards upon which public philosophy rests. It is essential reading for philosophers and political and social scientists seeking to resurrect the standards of American public life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780739102930
• ISBN-10: 0739102931
• Artikelnr.: 31201324

Autorenporträt

E. Robert Statham Jr is Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Division of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Guam.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 What is the Public Philosophy? Chapter 2 American Public
Philosophy After the Cold War Part 3 Traditionalist Perspectives Chapter 4
On the Degeneration of Public Philosophy in America: Problems and Prospects
Chapter 5 A Public Philosophy: Dangers, Possibilities, and Probabilities
Part 6 Political Philosophy and the Public: Skepticism v. Optimism Chapter
7 The Public Philosophy and the Limits of Philosophy Chapter 8 The
Political Philosopher and the Public Sphere Chapter 9 Plato and the Modern
Escape from Political Responsibility Part 10 The Political Science
Discipline Chapter 11 Political Science and Political Philosophy: An Uneasy
Relation Chapter 12 The Tragedy of Political Science: Science and the Moral
Foundations of Democratic Order Chapter 13 The State in Political Science:
How We Became What We Study Part 14 Public Philosophy, American
Constitutionalism, and Political Science Chapter 15 Constitutionalism, the
Public Philosophy, and Political Science Chapter 16 The American Crisis of
Public Philosophy and Political Science as a Discipline