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Politics and the Search for the Common Good
Hans Sluga
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Description for Politics and the Search for the Common Good
paperback. This book is a vigorous reassessment of the nature of politics and political theorizing. Num Pages: 272 pages, 3 b/w illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 227 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is meant to realize. He argues that politics is not a natural but a historical phenomenon, and not a single thing but a multiplicity of political forms and values only loosely related. He contrasts two traditions in political philosophy: a 'normative theorizing' that extends from Plato to John Rawls and a newer 'diagnostic practice' that emerged with Marx and Nietzsche and has found its three most prominent twentieth-century practitioners in Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. He ... Read more
Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is meant to realize. He argues that politics is not a natural but a historical phenomenon, and not a single thing but a multiplicity of political forms and values only loosely related. He contrasts two traditions in political philosophy: a 'normative theorizing' that extends from Plato to John Rawls and a newer 'diagnostic practice' that emerged with Marx and Nietzsche and has found its three most prominent twentieth-century practitioners in Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. He ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107671133
SKU
V9781107671133
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99-26
About Hans Sluga
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).
Reviews for Politics and the Search for the Common Good
'The current standing of politics and politicians is low, citizens are disaffected and disengaged, and much writing on politics is empty and abstract. In this important new study Hans Sluga reflects on the nature of politics, and how we might reach a better understanding of it as 'the care of the common'. It is a compelling read.' Andrew Gamble, University ... Read more