Ronald Beiner

Political Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

What It Is and Why It Matters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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, Lowith, 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139986489
• Artikelnr.: 41329548

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1. First prologue: horizons of political reflection
2. Second prologue: Freud, Weber, and political philosophy
3. Hannah Arendt: the performativity of politics
4. Michael Oakeshott: life's adventure
5. Leo Strauss: the politics of philosophy
6. Karl Löwith: in awe of the cosmos
7. Excursus on nature and history in the Strauss-Löwith correspondence
8. Eric Voegelin: modernity's vortex
9. Simone Weil: the politics of the soul
10. Hans-Georg Gadamer: philosophy without hubris
11. Jürgen Habermas: politics as rational discourse
12. Michel Foucault's carceral society
13. Alasdair MacIntyre: fragmentation and wholeness
14. Short excursus on the rise and decline of communitarianism as a political philosophy
15. John Rawls and the death of political philosophy
16. Richard Rorty: knocking philosophy off its pedestal
or, the death of political philosophy postmodernized
17. Epilogue: on not throwing in the towel.