The responsibility of reason : theory and practice in a liberal-democratic age / Ralph C. Hancock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hancock, Ralph C., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Reason.

Liberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Responsibility of Reason, Ralph C. Hancock undertakes no less than to answer the Heideggerian challenge. Offering trenchant and original interpretations of Aristotle, Heidegger, Strauss, and Alexis de Tocqueville, he argues that Tocqueville saw the essential more clearly than apparently deeper philosophers. Hancock addresses political theorists on the question of the grounding of liberalism, and, at the same time, philosophers on the most basic questions of the meaning and limits of reason. Moreover, he shows how these questions are for us inseparable.

Contents:

Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Reason's Meaning and Responsibility in a Liberal-Democratic Age; Chapter 2: The Crisis of "Moral Analogy" and the Problem of the Rule of Reason; Chapter 3: The Rule of Reason and Paradoxes of Transcendence; Chapter 4: Heidegger's Rejection and Radicalization of Modern Transcendence; Chapter 5: Leo Strauss and the Nobility of Philosophy; Chapter 6: Tocqueville's Responsible Reason; Chapter 7: Reason's Postmodern Responsibility; Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-29208-1

1-283-13526-4

9786613135261

1-4422-0739-6

OCLC:

731646761