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Political philosophy : what it is and why it matters
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ISBN: 9781107680555 9781107069954 1107680557 1107069955 9781107707115 1139986481 1139991116 1107707110 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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, Löwith, 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.

What's the matter with liberalism?
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ISBN: 0520077938 0520203356 0585299625 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

Political judgment
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ISBN: 0416342809 9780416342802 Year: 1983 Publisher: London Methuen

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Liberalism, nationalism, citizenship : essays on the problem of political community
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ISBN: 128312985X 9786613129857 0774850418 9780774850414 0774809876 9780774809870 9780774809870 6613129852 Year: 2003 Publisher: Vancouver : ©2003 UBC Press,

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Liberals believe that the purpose of politics is to guarantee that individuals do not face unfair impediments in pursuing the lives they choose for themselves. Nationalists believe that the purpose of politics is to ensure that a people's sense of authentic nationhood wins full expression in powers of collective sovereignty or self-rule. Both of these forms of political commitment yield world-transforming political philosophies, but do either of these visions do adequate justice to a philosophically robust ideal of shared citizenship and civic membership? In Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship, Ronald Beiner engages critically with a wide range of important political thinkers and current debates in light of the Aristotelian idea that shared citizenship is an essential human calling. Virtually every aspect of contemporary political experience -- globalization, international migration, secessionist movements, the politics of multiculturalism -- pose urgent challenges to modern citizenship. Beiner's work on the philosophy of citizenship is essential reading not just for students of politics and political philosophy, but for all those who rightly sense that these kinds of recent challenges demand an ambitious rethinking of the nature of political community.

Theorizing nationalism
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ISBN: 9780791440667 058509053X 9780585090535 9780791440650 0791440656 0791440664 0791440656 0791440664 0791496155 Year: 1999

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Presents some of the best work by political theorists on themes concerning citizenship, national identity, and the philosophical meaning of political membership.


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Civil religion : a dialogue in the history of political philosophy
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ISBN: 9780521506366 9780521738439 9780511763144 9780511909641 0511909640 051176314X 0521506360 0521738431 1107215536 0511851480 1282907913 9786612907913 0511908873 051190813X 0511906846 0511905564 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Civil Religion offers philosophical commentaries on more than twenty thinkers stretching from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. It examines four important traditions within the history of modern political philosophy. The civil religion tradition, principally defined by Machiavelli, Hobbes and Rousseau, seeks to domesticate religion by putting it solidly in the service of politics. The liberal tradition pursues an alternative strategy of domestication by seeking to put as much distance as possible between religion and politics. Modern theocracy is a militant reaction against liberalism, reversing the relationship of subordination asserted by civil religion. Finally, a fourth tradition is defined by Nietzsche and Heidegger. Aspects of their thought are not just modern, but hyper-modern, yet they manifest an often-hysterical reaction against liberalism that is fundamentally shared with the theocratic tradition. Together, these four traditions compose a vital dialogue that carries us to the heart of political philosophy itself.


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Générosité herméneutique et critique sociale
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Nationalism, internationalism and the Nairn-Hobsbawn debate
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Political judgment
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ISBN: 0416342701 Year: 1983 Publisher: London Methuen

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Theorizing citizenship
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ISBN: 0791423352 Year: 1995 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press

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