The Active Life - Miller's Metaphysics of Democracy

The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative lives is taken up in this innovative and wide-ranging examination of John William Millers effort of forge a metaphysics of democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Millers actualist philosophy--its scope, its systematic character, and its dialectical form. Michael J. McGandy persuasively sets Millers actualism in the context of Hannah Arendts understanding of the active life and skillfully presents actualism as a response to Whitmans challenge to craft a democratic form of metaphysics. McGandy concludes that Miller reveals how the philosophical and the political are inextricably connected, how there is no active life without the contemplative life, and that the contemplative life is founded in the active life.

About the author

Michael J. McGandy is Associate Managing Editor for Norton Professional Books.

Product details

• Authors: Michael J McGandy, Michael J. Mcgandy
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2005
• EAN: 9780791465370
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6537-0
• No. of pages: 252
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Suny the Philosophy of the Soc
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous