Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 240 pages)
ISBN:
9781442678446
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1442678445
Content:
In this collection of his essays and reviews, Ronald Beiner probes the boundaries of our social world and develops his own intellectual challenge to liberalism in a critical review of contemporary thinkers
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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CONTENTS -- PREFACE: THE THEORIST AS CRITIC -- I: Liberalism and Hyper-Liberalism -- 1 Liberalism in the Cross-Hairs of Theory -- 2 The Proper Bounds of Self -- 3 Reconciling Liberty and Equality -- 4 Cruelty First -- 5 Liberalism as Neutralism -- 6 Revising the Self -- 7 Liberalism, Pluralism, and Religion -- 8 Richard Rorty's Liberalism -- 9 Foucault's Hyper-Liberalism -- II: Interrogating Modernity -- 10 Do We Need a Philosophical Ethics? Theory, Prudence, and the Primacy of Ethos -- 11 Rescuing the Rationalist Heritage -- 12 Accepting Finitude
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13 Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss: The Uncommenced DialogueAppendix: Response from a Colleague, with a Rejoinder -- 14 Eros and the Bourgeoisie -- 15 Left-Wing Conservatism: The Legacy of Christopher Lasch -- 16 Hermeneutical Generosity and Social Criticism -- 17 Thin Ice -- III: Political Judgment Revisited -- 18 Practical Wisdom -- 19 Science and Wisdom -- 20 Rereading Hannah Arendt's Kant Lectures -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0802042104
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Beiner, Ronald, 1953- Philosophy in a time of lost spirit Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1997 ISBN 9780802042101
Language:
English
Author information:
Beiner, Ronald 1953-
