Political philosophy : what it is and why it matters /
Beiner, Ronald,1953-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
First prologue: horizons of political reflection -- Second prologue: Freud, Weber, and political philosophy -- Hannah Arendt: the performativity of politics -- Michael Oakeshott: life's adventure -- Leo Strauss: the politics of philosophy -- Karl Löwith: in awe of the cosmos -- Excursus on nature and history in the Strauss-Lö̈with correspondence -- Eric Voegelin: modernity's vortex -- Simone Weil: the politics of the soul -- Hans-Georg Gadamer: philosophy without hubris -- Jürgen Habermas: politics as rational discourse -- Michel Foucault's carceral society -- Alasdair MacIntyre: fragmentation and wholeness -- Short excursus on the rise and decline of communitarianism as a political philosophy -- John Rawls and the death of political philosophy -- Richard Rorty: knocking philosophy off its pedestal; or, the death of political philosophy postmodernized.
Political science