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George Kateb has been one of the most respected and influential political theorists of the last quarter century. His work stands apart from that of many of his contemporaries and resists easy summary. In these essays, Kateb often admonishes himself, in Socratic fashion, to keep political argument as...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kateb, George
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Political psychology.
Political ethics.
Psychologie politique.
Morale politique.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Liberty and the American Constitution
  • 1 Is Patriotism a Mistake?
  • 2 Notes on Pluralism
  • 3 Undermining the Constitution
  • 4 A Life of Fear
  • 5 On Being Watched and Known
  • Part II Politics, Aesthetics, and Morality
  • 6 Aestheticism and Morality: Their Cooperation and Hostility
  • 7 The Judgment of Arendt
  • 8 Courage as a Virtue
  • 9 Technology and Philosophy
  • Part III The Adequacy of the Canon
  • 10 Socratic Integrity
  • 11 Wildness and Conscience: Thoreau and Emerson
  • 12 Prohibition and Transgression
  • 13 Hobbes and the Irrationality of Politics
  • 14 Ideology and Storytelling
  • 15 Can Cultures Be Judged?: Two Defenses of Cultural Pluralism in Isaiah Berlins Work
  • 16 The Adequacy of the Canon
  • Index.

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