Solidarity in a Secular Age: From Political Theology to Jewish Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780197583791 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 280 str.

Charles H. T. Lesch

Recenzje

This important monograph explores why previous political philosophers have been unable to answer Carl Schmitt's challenge that "liberalism needs solidarity, but solidarity is exogenous to liberalism" (p. 3). In short, liberalism "sustains itself on a dwindling supply of religious resources inherited from its history"...Lesch deserves praise for highlighting the role the nonrational plays in human psychology and for striving to overcome "contemporary political theory's...tin ear to forms of life and politics informed by religion and theology".

O autorze

Charles H. T. Lesch is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research grapples with questions in contemporary political theory and practice by drawing from the history of European political thought, modern and classical Jewish thought, religious studies, social theory, and literature. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, and The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society. He has won awards including Harvard's Bowdoin Prize and Vanderbilt's Robert Birkby Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and has been a Golda Meir Fellow, Mellon/ACLS Fellow, Harvard Presidential Scholar, Fulbright Fellow, and Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellow in Ethics.