Political Philosophy In the Moment - Jim Josefson

Political Philosophy In the Moment

Narratives of Freedom from Plato to Arendt

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Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-19280-8 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
A page-turning book of short stories and a tour through the greatest works of political philosophy, Political Philosophy In the Moment makes political philosophy as approachable, comprehensible, and welcoming as a fairy-tale.
Political Philosophy In the Moment uncovers the political power of narrative by both telling and explaining the stories that frame our ability to be "in the moment."

In a series of eleven short stories, Jim Josefson presents the history of political philosophy and Hannah Arendt’s alternative, an aesthetic form of politics. In the early stories, Josefson recounts how the four main traditions of political philosophy (Platonism, Aristotelianism, liberalism and historicism) promise truth but deny us the freedom available in reality. Then, he reviews the alternative narratives offered by thinkers like Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Heidegger, which influenced Arendt’s view. The final chapters chart Arendt’s route back to the Moment, the freedom to read and tell a fuller story about the beauty and horrors that appear in the world.

A page-turning book of short stories and a tour through the greatest works of political philosophy, Political Philosophy In the Moment is as approachable, comprehensible and welcoming as a fairy-tale, ideally suited for students of contemporary political theory and anyone interested in political thought.

Jim Josefson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Bridgewater College. Josefson received his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University. His publications have appeared in Philosophy & Social Criticism, Party Politics, PS: Political Science & Politics and Justice et Injustice Spatiales. Josefson defends his reading of Arendt further in the forthcoming book Hannah Arendt’s Aesthetic Politics: Freedom & the Beautiful.

Introduction 1. The Unbearable Lightness of Being 2. The Tambourine Man and the Tinker 3. Being in the Momentary 4. Phenomenology of the Undead 5. Report by John Deere 6. Thus Woke Sara Thurston 7. The Fountainhead and the Spring 8. The Pass, the Ground, the Clearing 9. The Stroller and the Great Disaster 10. The Beaten Path of Thought 11. The Return

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-367-19280-2 / 0367192802
ISBN-13 978-0-367-19280-8 / 9780367192808
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