Politics and the imagination

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In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind. In this collection of recent essays, including his most overtly political writing yet, Geuss explores the role of imagination in politics, particularly how imaginative constructs interact with political reality. He uses decisions about the war in Iraq to explore the peculiar ways in which politicians can be deluded and c…

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Full title :Politics and the imagination / Raymond Geuss.

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Publication Date:©2010.

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Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

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Description:1 ressource en ligne

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oclc:ocn660065163
LC Classification:JA71
Dewey Decimal:320.01

Political judgment in its historical context -- The politics of managing decline -- Moralism and realpolitik -- On the very idea of a metaphysics of right -- The actual and another modernity : order and imagination in Don Quixote -- Culture as ideal and as boundary -- On museums -- Celan's Meridian -- Heidegger and his brother -- Richard Rorty at Princeton : personal recollections -- Melody as death -- On bourgeois philosophy and the concept of "criticism."

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e-books Idées politiques -- Philosophie Imagination (Philosophie) Imagination (Philosophy) Livres numériques Political science -- Philosophy Science politique -- Philosophie