The Concept of Political Judgment by Steinberger, Peter J.

The Concept of Political Judgment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226771939)

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The Concept of Political Judgment by Steinberger, Peter J.

The Concept of Political Judgment

$37.00
The Concept of Political Judgment by Steinberger, Peter J.

The Concept of Political Judgment

$37.00
Format: Paperback
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What is good political judgment? Is it a science subject to strict standards of logic and inference, or is it more like an art, the product of intuition, feeling, or even chance? Peter J. Steinberger shows how the seemingly contradictory claims of inference and intuition are reconciled in the concept of political judgment.

Resting his argument on the larger notion of judgment itself, Steinberger develops an original model of how political judgments are made and how we justify calling some of them "good." His systematic analysis of such thinkers as Machiavelli, Kant, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, and Oakeshott introduces an original notion of judgment as "intelligent performance," incorporating both intuition and rational reconstruction.

Steinberger's conclusion--that a coherent political society must also be a judgmental one--flies in the face of much contemporary thinking.

Author: Peter J. Steinberger
ISBN-10: 0226771938
ISBN-13: 9780226771939
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1993
Pages: 317
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.96w x 0.72d
By Peter J. Steinberger
By Peter J. Steinberger
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Peter J. Steinberger is professor of political science and humanities at Reed College. His other books are Ideology and the Urban Crisis and Logic and Politics: Hegel's Philosophy of Right.

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