Political Philosophy And Political Action

Author : Delia Popescu
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780739149577

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Political Action in Václav Havel's Thought by Delia Popescu Pdf

Political Action in Vaclav Havel's Thought: The Responsibility of Resistance, by Delia Popescu, examines resistance to oppression and individual responsibility in political action, all in the context of Vaclav Havel's political philosophy. The famous anti-communist dissident, acclaimed playwright, former President of the Czech Republic, and eminent political thinker argues that there is a certain tendency in modern humanity towards the creation, or at least toleration, of a political system that is invasive and controlling. Not unlike Tocqueville and Arendt, Havel claims that modern liberal democracy contains potential tendencies toward a new form of despotism that capitalizes on modern alienation and social atomization. Political Action in Vaclav Havel's Thought suggests that Havel's theory of individual opposition can be used to secure political freedom under the conditions of modernity. Popescu demonstrates that Havel's idea of attaining true political participation and freedom requires a strong connection between an individually constructed ethics and the realm of politics. On this basis she reveals that a thick notion of morality can be usefully integrated into an account of both private and public accountability. Vaclav Havel's essays, plays, speeches, and letters can therefore be integrated into a coherent political theory which contributes significantly to some of the central debates in modern political thought. Delia Popescu concludes that Havel's theory of individual opposition to totalitarianism may also serve as the foundation for a conception of responsible participation in modern liberal democracies.

Author : Adam Burgos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786600103

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Political Philosophy and Political Action by Adam Burgos Pdf

Looks at the connections between practices of resistance and political theory.

Author : Michael G. Gottsegen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791417298

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The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt by Michael G. Gottsegen Pdf

It explicates Arendt's major works - The Human Condition, Between Past and Future, On Revolution, The Life of the Mind, and Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy - and explores her contributions to democratic theory and to contemporary postmodern and neo-Kantian political philosophy.

Author : Raymond Geuss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691258690

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Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss Pdf

A trenchant critique of established ideas in political philosophy and a provocative call for change Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a skill that allows people to survive and pursue their goals. To understand politics is to understand the powers, motives, and concepts that people have and that shape how they deal with the problems they face in their particular historical situations. Philosophy and Real Politics both outlines a historically oriented, realistic political philosophy and criticizes liberal political philosophies based on abstract conceptions of rights and justice.

Author : Oliver Feltham
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441199546

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Anatomy of Failure by Oliver Feltham Pdf

Modern liberalism begins in the forgetting of the English Revolution. Anatomy of Failure seeks to right that wrong by exploring the concept of political action, playing its history against its philosophy. The 1640s are a period of institutional failure and political disaster: the country plunges into civil war, every agent is naked. Established procedures are thrown aside and the very grounds for action are fiercely debated and recast. Five queries emerge in the experience of the New Model Army, five queries that outline an anatomy of failure, isolating the points at which actors disagree, conflict flares up, and alliances dissolve: Who can act? On what grounds? Who is right about what is to be done? Why do we succeed or fail? If you and I split, were we ever united, and to what end? The application of these questions to the Leveller-agitator writings, and then to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke's philosophies, generates models of political action. No mere philosophical abstractions, the Hobbesian and Lockean models of sovereign and contractual action have dominated the very practice of politics for centuries. Today it is time to recuperate the Leveller-agitator model of joint action, a model unique in its adequacy to the threat of failure and in its vocation for building the common-wealth. Anatomy of Failure is ideal for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in Contemporary Political Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Modern European Philosophy, Contemporary French Philosophy, Critical Theory and Radical Political Thought.

Author : Ben Laurence
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674258419

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Agents of Change by Ben Laurence Pdf

An incisive argument for the relevance of political philosophy and its possibility of effecting change. The appeal of political philosophy is that it will answer questions about justice for the sake of political action. But contemporary political philosophy struggles to live up to this promise. Since the death of John Rawls, political philosophers have become absorbed in methodological debates, leading to an impasse between two unattractive tendencies: utopians argue that philosophy should focus uncompromisingly on abstract questions of justice, while pragmatists argue that we should concern ourselves only with local efforts to ameliorate injustice. Agents of Change shows a way forward. Ben Laurence argues that we can combine utopian justice and the pragmatic response to injustice in a political philosophy that unifies theory and practice in pursuit of change. Political philosophy, on this view, is not a purely normative theory disconnected from practice. Rather, political philosophy is itself a practiceÑan exercise of practical reason issuing in action. Laurence contends that this exercise begins in ordinary life with the confrontation with injustice. Philosophy draws ideas about justice from this encounter to be pursued through political action. Laurence shows that the task of political philosophy is not complete until it asks the question ÒWhat is to be done?Ó and deliberates actionable answers.

Author : Michael Laver
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761951156

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Private Desires, Political Action by Michael Laver Pdf

Private Desires, Political Action is an accessible overview of one of the most important approaches to the study of politics in the modern world - rational choice theory. Michael Laver does not set out to review this entire field, but rather to discuss how we might use rational choice theory to analyze the political competition that affects almost every aspect of our lives. The broad-ranging scope of the book introduces the theory at many levels of analysis, including: the private desires of individuals; the social context of how people fulfil their desires; and the problems of collective action. The discussion of these problems extends into the arena of politics, where the activities of `political entrepreneurs' or

Author : Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134881963

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The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt by Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves Pdf

First published in 1993. This is a systematic introduction to the thought of one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. The author uncovers the concepts of modernity, action, judgement and citizenship that underpin her work.

Author : Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen
Publisher : Automatic Press / VIP
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X030246781

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Political Questions by Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen Pdf

Political Questions is a collection of original contributions from a distinguished score of the world's most prominent and influential political philosophers. They deal with questions such as what drew them towards the area; how they view their own contribution to the field; and what the future of political philosophy looks like.

Author : B.C. Parekh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1981-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349057474

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Hannah Arendt and the Search for a New Political Philosophy by B.C. Parekh Pdf

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226777138

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What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies by Leo Strauss Pdf

"All political action has . . . in itself a directedness towards knowledge of the good: of the good life, or of the good society. For the good society is the complete political good. If this directedness becomes explicit, if men make it their explicit goal to acquire knowledge of the good life and of the good society, political philosophy emerges. . . . The theme of political philosophy is mankind's great objectives, freedom and government or empire—objectives which are capable of lifting all men beyond their poor selves. Political philosophy is that branch of philosophy which is closest to political life, to non-philosophic life, to human life."—From "What Is Political Philosophy?" What Is Political Philosophy?—a collection of ten essays and lectures and sixteen book reviews written between 1943 and 1957—contains some of Leo Strauss's most famous writings and some of his most explicit statements of the themes that made him famous. The title essay records Strauss's sole extended articulation of the meaning of political philosophy itself. Other essays discuss the relation of political philosophy to history, give an account of the political philosophy of the non-Christian Middle Ages and of classic European modernity, and present his theory of esoteric writing.

Author : Kenneth B. McIntyre
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845403812

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The Limits of Political Theory by Kenneth B. McIntyre Pdf

This book examines Oakeshott’s political philosophy within the context of his more general conception of philosophical understanding. The book stresses the underlying continuity of his major writings on the subject and takes seriously the implications of understanding the world in terms of modality. The book suggests strongly that Oakeshott’s philosophy of political activity cannot be reduced to a branch of conservatism, liberalism, or postmodernism or a theory or set of doctrines which fit neatly into any conventional school, like that of Idealism or Skepticism. Rather, Oakeshott’s philosophy of political activity is a provocation to all of the currently dominant schools of political theory and political practice. It questions their presuppositions and exposes as ambiguous, arbitrary, or confused all of the supposed certainties which they take for granted. It does all this by offering profound insights into the character and limits of both political activity and political theory in the modern world.

Author : András Lánczi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137515179

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Political Realism and Wisdom by András Lánczi Pdf

This book brings the idea of realism back to the focus of political science. Contrary to current mainstream thought, the author contributes to the recently renewed interest in political realism by suggesting we return to the basics understanding of politics: power and political action.

Author : David Miller
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191577864

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Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by David Miller Pdf

This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as 'how should we live together in society?' It looks at political authority, the reasons why we need politics at all, the limitations of politics, and whether there are areas of life that shouldn't be governed by politics. It explores the connections between political authority and justice, a constant theme in political philosophy, and the ways in which social justice can be used to regulate rather than destroy a market economy. David Miller discusses why nations are the natural units of government and whether the rise of multiculturalism and transnational co-operation will change this: will we ever see the formation of a world government? ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Robin George Collingwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198235666

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Essays in Political Philosophy by Robin George Collingwood Pdf

This book brings together for the first time R. G. Collingwood's political and related writings, in which he places political action in the context of action as a whole and addresses the substantive social and political issues - in particular Nazism and Fascism - which he perceived as a threatto European civilization. This is the first time that substantial philosophical arguments from the unpublished manuscripts have been reproduced since Malcolm Knox edited the posthumously published Idea of History.