Title : | Political criticism |
Material Type: | printed text |
Authors: | Ian Shapiro, Author |
Publisher: | Berkeley : University of California Press |
Publication Date: | 1990 |
Layout: | xii, 338 p. |
Size: | 24 cm |
ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-520-08032-4 |
General note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-316)
Includes index (p. 317-338) |
Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) |
Descriptors: | Political science - History - 20th century Political science - Philosophy
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Class number: | 320.01 |
Abstract: | Since the 1960s a resurgence of interest in the moral foundations of politics has fueled debates about the appropriate sources of our political judgments. Ian Shapiro analyzes and advances these debates, discussing them in an accessibly style. He defends a view of politics called critical naturalism as a third way between the neo-Kantian theory of John Rawl's and the contextual arguments of Richard Rorty, Michael Walzer, Alasdair MacIntyre and others. He formulates a new justification for democratic politics and an innovative account of the nature of political argument. |
Contents note: | Terms of the Problem; The Turn Away from Neo-Kantian Political Theory; Placing Conventions in Political Argument; Liberalism and Postmodernism; Political Theory as Connected Social Criticism; Contemporary Political Theory and the History of Ideas; The Tradition of Political Theory as Political Instruction; The History of Ideas as Therapeutic Diagnosis; History as a Source of Republican Alternatives; Anti-Kantian Foundations; Anti-Kantian Complaints Revisited; Critical Naturalism and Political Theory; Principled Criticism and the Democratic Political Ethos; |
Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=19193 |