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Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy
Kolnai, Aurel. Ed(S): Mahoney, Daniel J.
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Description for Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy
Hardback. This volume presents Aurel Kolnai's major writings in political philosophy, writings which explore Kolnai's critique of progressive or egalitarian democracy. Editor(s): Mahoney, Daniel J. Series: Applications of Political Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
We are currently witnessing an increasingly influential counterrevolution in political theory, evident in the dialectical return to classical political science pioneered most prominently by Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. In this context, the work of the relatively unknown Aurel Kolnai is of great importance. Kolnai was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century to place the restoration of common-sense evaluation and philosophical realism at the center of his philosophical and political itinerary. In this volume, Daniel J. Mahoney presents Kolnai's major writings in political philosophy, writings that explore - in ways that are diverse but complementary - Kolnai's ... Read more
We are currently witnessing an increasingly influential counterrevolution in political theory, evident in the dialectical return to classical political science pioneered most prominently by Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. In this context, the work of the relatively unknown Aurel Kolnai is of great importance. Kolnai was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century to place the restoration of common-sense evaluation and philosophical realism at the center of his philosophical and political itinerary. In this volume, Daniel J. Mahoney presents Kolnai's major writings in political philosophy, writings that explore - in ways that are diverse but complementary - Kolnai's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Applications of Political Theory
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739100769
SKU
V9780739100769
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About Kolnai, Aurel. Ed(S): Mahoney, Daniel J.
Aurel Kolnai (1900-1973) was a distinguished moral and political philosopher. His books include The War Against the West (1938), Ethics, Value and Reality (1977), and The Utopian Mind and Other Papers (1995). Daniel J. Mahoney is Associate Professor of Political Science at Assumption College. He is author of The Liberal Political Science of Raymond Aron (1992) and De Gaulle: Statesmanship, ... Read more
Reviews for Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy
This volume of Kolnai's essays offers a searching critique of political utopianism and casts a penetrating eye on liberal democracy's own illiberal and potentially self-destructive tendencies.
Perspectives on Political Science
[This] book . . . gives us a clearer and more familiar insight into a thinker who was not well-known in his time but whose importance may yet ... Read more
Perspectives on Political Science
[This] book . . . gives us a clearer and more familiar insight into a thinker who was not well-known in his time but whose importance may yet ... Read more