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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817913103321

Autore

Beiner Ronald <1953->

Titolo

Philosophy in a time of lost spirit : essays on contemporary theory  / / Ronald Beiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

1-281-99547-9

9786611995478

1-4426-7844-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

320.51

Soggetti

Liberalism

Communitarianism

Political science - Philosophy

Livres numeriques.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""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""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""

Sommario/riassunto

In this collection of his essays and reviews, Ronald Beiner probes the boundaries of our social world and develops his own intellectual challenge to liberalism in a critical review of contemporary thinkers.