Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit : : Essays on Contemporary Theory / / Ron Beiner.
In the last two centuries, our world would have been a safer place if philosophers such as Rousseau, Marx, and Nietzsche had not given intellectual encouragement to the radical ideologies of Jacobins, Stalinists, and fascists. Maybe the world would have been better off, from the standpoint of sound...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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