Political Judgment: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781509513116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 140 str.

Peter J. Steinberger

Opis

Politics is the process by which communities of people collectively decide to pursue certain courses of action and avoid others. It is, as such, always a matter of judgment.

Recenzje

One could not have hoped for a clearer or more helpful guide to the literature on political judgment than the one supplied by Peter Steinberger. Anyone interested in what it is to make judgments about our political world, and how to secure validity for those judgments, will be stimulated and edified by Steinberger s astute treatment of this important theme.
Ronald Beiner, University of Toronto

What is good political judgment? Peter Steinberger offers an illuminating account of the diverse answers offered to this long–standing question in the Western philosophical tradition. A must read.
Linda M. G. Zerilli, University of Chicago

Spis treści

• Contents
• Introduction What is Political Judgment?
• Chapter 1 Foundations: Plato and Aristotle
• Chapter 2 The Kantian Problematic
• Chapter 3 The Arendtian Theory of Judgment
• Chapter 4 Hermeneutics, Tacit Knowledge and Neo–Rationalism
• Notes
• Index

O autorze

Peter J. Steinberger is Robert H. and Blanche Day Ellis Professor of Political Science and Humanities at Reed College.