Political Realism and Wisdom

ISBN-13: 9781137515162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 211 str.

Andras Lanczi

Opis

In European-American culture the tension between "what there is" and "what there should be" has been a constant source of political action. In the interest of becoming more "scientific," modern political science increasingly fails to recognize that power is interpersonal, not institutional. Arguing against the current mainstream thought, Andras Lanczi contributes to the recently renewed interest in political realism by suggesting we return to the basic understanding of politics: power and political action. The modern bias towards democracy has become fundamental, or to put it differently, democracy is a political religion today. This result from the confusion of two different realms of life: the realm of manners, the written and unwritten rules how we should live our lives, and the methods we apply when we wish to understand political matters scientifically. Lanczi shows how the distinction must be sharply drawn between norms of morals and manners, and those of scholarly inquiries.

O autorze

András Lánczi is a political philosopher and Director of the Institute of Political Science and Philosophy at Corvinus University, USA, Budapest. Among his books published in Hungarian are On Political Knowledge, Fate-legacy, Tradition and Modernity in Leo Strauss's Political Philosophy, Democracy and Political Science, Political Philosophy of the 20th Century. He is also active in the revival of the Hungarian and European conservative political thought.