Philosophy in a time of lost spirit : essays on contemporary theory /
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.
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
©1997.
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Obsah:
- 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 DialogueAppendix: 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