Politics of the Lesser Evil

ISBN-13: 9781138513396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 260 str.

Anton Pelinka

Opis

In his pathbreaking book, Leadership, James MacGregor Burns defines a kind of leadership with an indistinguishable personal impact on society

Spis treści

Foreword, 1. On Leadership, 2. Jaruzelski I: On the Gravity of one — of any — Political Decision, 3. On the Illusion of Democratic Leadership, 4. An Impossible Encounter — The First, 5. On the Tendency to Ban Machiavelli to Hell, 6. On the Limits of Idealism, 7. Charisma, 8. On the Attempts to Tame a Myth, 9. On the Skepticism Toward Too Much Democracy, 10. On the Unavoidability of Lying, 11. On the Misery of Collaboration, 12. On the Presumption of Objectivity, 13. On the Ambiguity of Difference, 14. On the Amorality of Foreign Policy, 15. On the Logic of Leninism, 16. On the True Nature of Personal Leadership, 17. On the Necessity of Limiting Evil, 18. On the Longing for William Tells and Robin Hoods, 19. On the Necessity of Becoming a Parvenu, 20. An Impossible Encounter — The Second, 21. On the Democratic Dissolution of Politics in General, 22. On the Transformation of the People into the Marketplace, 23. The Cockpit, 24. On the Possibility of Intellectual and Moral Leadership, 25. Jaruzelski II: On the Arbitrary Nature of Historical Perception, 26. Bibliography, Index of Persons

O autorze

Anton Pelinka