Politics and the Imagination / / Raymond Geuss.
In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind. In this collection of recent essays, including his most overtly political writing yet, Geuss explores the role of imaginati...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- I. Political Judgment in Its Historical Context
- II. The Politics of Managing Decline
- III. Moralism and Realpolitik
- IV. On the Very Idea of a Metaphysics of Right
- V. The Actual and Another Modernity. Order and Imagination in Don Quixote
- VI. Culture as Ideal and as Boundary
- VII. On Museums
- VIII. Celan's Meridian
- IX. Heidegger and His Brother
- X. Richard Rorty at Princeton. Personal Recollections
- XI. Melody as Death
- XII. On Bourgeois Philosophy and the Concept of "Criticism"
- Bibliography
- Index