Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Authors and Arguments
Cambridge University Press, 11/10/2011
EAN 9780521185066, ISBN10: 0521185068
Paperback, 290 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm
Language: English
This book demonstrates the rich diversity and depth of political philosophy in the twentieth century. Catherine H. Zuckert has compiled a collection of essays recounting the lives of political theorists, connecting each biography with the theorist's life work and explaining the significance of the contribution to modern political thought. The essays are organized to highlight the major political alternatives and approaches. Beginning with essays on John Dewey, Carl Schmitt and Antonio Gramsci, representing the three main political alternatives - liberal, fascist and communist - at mid-century, the book proceeds to consider the lives and works of émigrés such as Hannah Arendt, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss, who brought a continental perspective to the United States after World War II. The second half of the collection contains essays on recent defenders of liberalism, such as Friedrich Hayek, Isaiah Berlin and John Rawls and liberalism's many critics, including Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas and Alasdair MacIntyre.
Introduction Catherine H. Zuckert
Part I. The Three Basic Alternatives in the Early Twentieth Century
1. John Dewey
philosophy as theory of education David Fott
2. Carl Schmitt political theology and the concept of the political Tracy B. Strong
3. Antonio Gramsci
liberation begins with critical thinking Joseph Buttigieg
Part II. Émigré Responses to World War II
4. Philosophy as a way of life Steven B. Smith
5. The philosopher's vocation
the Voegelinian paradigm Ellis Sandoz
6. Yves R. Simon
a philosopher's quest for science and prudence Walter Nicgorski
7. Hannah Arendt
from philosophy to politics Dana R. Villa
Part III. The Revival of Liberal Political Philosophy
8. Friedrich Hayek on the nature of social order and law Eric Mack
9. Michael Oakeshott
the philosophical skeptic in an impatient age Timothy Fuller
10. Moral pluralism and liberal democracy
Isaiah Berlin's heterodox liberalism William Galston
11. H. L. A. Hart
a twentieth-century Oxford political philosopher John M. Finnis
Part IV. Critiques of Liberalism
12. John Rawls and the task of political philosophy Paul Weithman
13. Richard Rorty
liberalism, irony, and social hope Michael Bacon
14. Jean-Paul Sartre
'in the soup' William Leon McBride
15. Michel Foucault
an ethical politics of care of self and others Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg
16. Jürgen Habermas
postwar German critical debates and the making of a theorist William E. Scheuerman
17. Alasdair MacIntyre on political thinking and the tasks of politics Arthur Madigan, SJ
18. Another philosopher-citizen
the political philosophy of Charles Taylor Ruth Abbey.