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Political Philosophy versus History? : Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought.
Leading scholars contribute original and timely essays which discuss how political philosophy should be studied today.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Note on the contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The challenge of universalism; The challenge of realism; Conclusion; Part I: The challenge of contextualism; 1 Rescuing political theory from the tyranny of history; The Collingwoodian paradigm
- the problem; The critique of historical reductionism in political theory
- the solution; 2 From historical contextualism, to mentalism, to behaviourism; Political philosophy as a question; political philosophy as a project; Historical contextualism as a form of political philosophy.
- The problem with historical contextualismSome clarification regarding targets; Two alternative suggestions; Mentalism in focus; Revisionism and behaviourism considered; Some tentative conclusions; 3 Contingency and judgement in history of political philosophy: a phenomenological approach; The Limits of Revisionism; The logic of normative argument; Thinking, writing, acting; Second thoughts; History and theory; 4 Political philosophy and the dead hand of its history; I; II; III; IV; Part II The challenge of realism; 5 Politics, political theory and its history; Political practice and rhetoric.
- HPT and PPHPT and politics; HPT and PP revisited; PP and politics; 6 Constraint, freedom, and exemplar: history and theory without teleology; The nature of normative political theory; History as constraint: explanation and normative political theory; History as freedom: genealogy and the implications of contingency; History as exemplar: classical practices and contemporary analogues; Conclusion: an example of the role of examples; 7 History and reality: idealist pathologies and 'Harvard School' remedies; Political bridging: between is and ought.
- Against the psychology of system: hope through narrativePolitical morality: agency, situation, and practical commitments; Avoiding the intellectually worst: realism versus speculative fiction; 8 The new realism: from modus vivendi to justice; Introduction; Raymond Geuss: from modus vivendi to legitimacy I; Bernard Williams: from modus vivendi to legitimacy II; James Tully: from legitimacy to justice I; Agonistic realism: from legitimacy to justice II; Relative value and assorted historical lessons: an afterword; Relative value and the ranking problem; Relative value, as distinct from ...
- Relative value and the double-balanceFurther thoughts and assorted historical lessons; Lesson 1
- fool's gold; Lesson 2
- the limits of theory; Lesson 3
- political philosophy versus history as a guide to political philosophy versus the rest; Lesson 4
- the uncertainty of progress; Index.