The Primacy of Persons in Politics - Empiricism and Political Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor John von Heyking, professor of political science at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, is author of Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World and Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought, and editor of two volumes in the Collected Works of Eric Voegelin series. Thomas Heilke is professor of political science and director of the Center for Global and International Studies at the University of Kansas. His many published works include From Ideologies to Public Philosophies and Great Ideas/Great Schemes: Political Ideologies in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Besides the editors, the contributors are Dan Avnon, Toivo Koivukoski, András Lánczi, Erik Nevue, Tilo Schabert, David E. Tabachnick, and Alexander Thumfart. Taking as their departure point the political-philosophical analyses of German scholar Tilo Schabert, the philosophical and empirical essays in this volume invite the reader to move beyond the sterile dichotomy of political activity as either pure will or as folded into a more manageable activity. The contributors argue that politics is a highly creative human activity that eludes capture within a final and static analytical framework, concluding that ethical political action is indeed part of the essence of politics. What is the nature of political activity? This question has vexed political

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• Authors: John (EDT)/ Heilke Von Heyking, VON HEYKING JOHN EDT HEILKE T
• Assisted by: Thomas Heilke (Editor), John Von Heyking (Editor), Associate Professor of Political Science John (University of Lethbridge) von Heyking (Editor), John von Heyking (Editor), John (University of Lethbridge) von Heyking (Editor)
• Publisher: Catholic univ of america press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2013
• EAN: 9780813221236
• ISBN: 978-0-8132-2123-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas