- Bib ID:
- 1646757
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Beiner, Ronald, 1953-
- Description:
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- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1997
- xiv, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0802042104 (alkaline paper) (cloth)
- 0802080677 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Preface: The Theorist as Critic
- I. Liberalism and Hyper-Liberalism. 1. Liberalism in the Cross-Hairs of Theory. 2. The Proper Bounds of Self. 3. Reconciling Liberty and Equality. 4. Cruelty First. 5. Liberalism as Neutralism. 6. Revising the Self. 7. Liberalism, Pluralism, and Religion. 8. Richard Rorty's Liberalism. 9. Foucault's Hyper-Liberalism
- II. Interrogating Modernity. 10. Do We Need a Philosophical Ethics? Theory, Prudence, and the Primacy of Ethos. 11. Rescuing the Rationalist Heritage. 12. Accepting Finitude. 13. Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: The Uncommenced Dialogue
- Appendix. Response from a Colleague, with a Rejoinder. 14. Eros and the Bourgeoisie. 15. Left-Wing Conservatism: The Legacy of Christopher Lasch. 16. Hermeneutical Generosity and Social Criticism. 17. Thin Ice
- III. Political Judgment Revisited. 18. Practical Wisdom. 19. Science and Wisdom. 20. Rereading Hannah Arendt's Kant Lectures.
- Notes:
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- Several of these essays were presented at the Conference for the Study of Political Thought.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Conference for the Study of Political Thought
- Copyright:
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