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Paul Ricoeur

The Promise and Risk of Politics

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Paul Ricoeur

The Promise and Risk of Politics

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Paul Ricoeur, with Rawls, Walzer, and Habermas as some of his main interlocutors, has developed a substantial and distinctive body of political thought. On the one hand, it articulates a rich conception of the paradoxical character of the domain of politics. On the other, it provides a fresh approach to such major topics as the relationship among politics, economics, and ethics and between concern for universal human rights and respect for cultural plurality. His work, rooted as it is in Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, also provides resources for a fruitful rethinking of the issues at stake in the liberal-communitarian debate.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Roots: An Introduction
Chapter 2 Early Political Thought
Chapter 3 Conceptual Advances
Chapter 4 Action, Agents and Their Identities
Chapter 5 From the Ethical Aim to the Moral Norm
Chapter 6 From the Moral Norm to Practical Wisdom
Chapter 7 Political Fragility
Chapter 8 Political Responsibility
Chapter 9 Assessment

Product details

Published Dec 23 1998
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 348
ISBN 9780847692378
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series 20th Century Political Thinkers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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