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The narrow passage : Plato, Foucault, and the possibility of political philosophy / Glenn Ellmers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellmers, Glenn, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Political and social views.
- Foucault, Michel.
- Plato--Political and social views.
- Plato.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Political culture--United States.
- Political culture.
- United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.
- United States.
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
- Political and social views.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 96 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Encounter Books, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Americans today seem to be more divided than at any time since the Civil War. Our differences are not just political and moral, but philosophical and even spiritual. Red and Blue America hardly seem to live in the same reality. Something has gone terribly wrong with the American political community. It has been a long time since the people of the United States fully exercised their sovereign authority to choose the officials in government whose primary job is to protect the people's natural rights according to the Constitution. Our political community has become something different. America, our "regime," has become post-constitutional. Yet it is not entirely clear what this post-constitutional arrangement is, how it operates, who is in charge, or how to fix it. Where did this crisis come from? Can it be overcome? What does the future hold for the survival of the American Constitution? Glenn Ellmers--a senior fellow with the Claremont Institute, prolific analyst of current affairs, and scholar of political philosophy--explores the deepest roots of our political turmoil and shows the connections between government bureaucracy, the misuse of science, and the leftwing ideology that controls so much of our public and private life"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Existential war
- The crisis of the West and the self-destruction of reason
- The altar of our fathers
- Progress or the return to nature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references, p. 81-96.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ellmers, Glenn, 1966- Narrow passage
- ISBN:
- 9781641773430
- 164177343X
- OCLC:
- 1381930000
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