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Politics without Vision
Tracy B. Strong
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Description for Politics without Vision
Hardback. From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. This work contends that we have lost our foundational supports. It takes up the work of seven influential thinkers, each of whom attempted to construct a political solution to this problem. Num Pages: 432 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 716.
From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of political thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has left us effectively "thinking without a banister." "Politics without Vision" takes up the work of seven influential thinkers, each of whom attempted to construct a political solution to this problem: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lenin, Schmitt, Heidegger, and Arendt. None of these theorists ... Read more
From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of political thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has left us effectively "thinking without a banister." "Politics without Vision" takes up the work of seven influential thinkers, each of whom attempted to construct a political solution to this problem: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lenin, Schmitt, Heidegger, and Arendt. None of these theorists ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226777467
SKU
V9780226777467
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About Tracy B. Strong
Tracy B. Strong is distinguished professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a former editor of Political Theory and the author or editor of many books, including Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Politics of the Ordinary, and The One and the Many: Ethical Pluralism in ... Read more
Reviews for Politics without Vision
"An outstanding study of twentieth-century political thought, conceptually challenging but accessibly written. Tracy B. Strong's unmistakable voice is at once lyrical and sober, and Politics without Vision is erudite and illuminating at every turn." -Patchen Markell, University of Chicago "This is an important book that has needed to be written, that Tracy B. Strong is perhaps uniquely positioned to write, ... Read more