Politics and the Search for the Common Good (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107068469)

Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is meant to realize. He argues that politics is not a natural but a historical phenomenon, and not a single thing but a multiplicity of political forms and values only loosely related. He contrasts two traditions in political philosophy: a 'normative theorizing' that extends from Plato to John Rawls and a newer 'diagnostic practice' that emerged with Marx and Nietzsche and has found its three most prominent twentieth-century practitioners in Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. He then examines the sources of diagnostic political thinking, analyzes its achievements, and offers a critical assessment of its limitations. His important book will be of interest to a wide range of upper-level students and scholars in political philosophy, political theory, and the history of ideas.

Author: Hans Sluga
ISBN-10: 1107068460
ISBN-13: 9781107068469
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2014
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d