Reality and Its Dreams / Raymond Geuss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geuss, Raymond, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.) : 5 halftones

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

One of political philosophy’s most trenchant and inventive critics challenges the field’s normative turn, arguing that the study of politics should focus on real politics, where normative judgments arise from concrete configurations of power. Raymond Geuss shows how this can be done without succumbing to a toxic relativism or abandoning utopianism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Dystopia: The Elements

2. Realism and the Relativity of Judgment

3. Chaos and Ethics

4. Russell Brand, Lady T, Pisher Bob, and Preacher John

5. The Idea of a Critical Theory, Forty Years On

6. István Hont (1947–2013)

7. The Moral Legacy of Marxism

8. Economies: Good, Bad, Indifferent

9. Can the Humanities Survive Neoliberalism?

10. Identification and the Politics of Envy

11. Identity, Property, and the Past

12. The Future of Evil

13. Satire, Who Whom?

14. The Radioactive Wolf, Pieing, and the Goddess Fashion

15. What Time Is It?

16. Augustine on Love, Perspective, and Human Nature

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-674-96893-X

OCLC:

984614370