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Informationen zum Autor Peter J. Steinberger is Robert H. and Blanche Day Ellis Professor of Political Science and Humanities and Dean of the Faculty! Reed College. His published books include Logic and Politics: Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1988) and The Concept of Political Judgement (1993). Klappentext This book seeks to reaffirm the importance of systematic philosophical inquiry into the foundations of political life. Zusammenfassung The Idea of the State seeks to reaffirm the importance of systematic philosophical inquiry into the foundations of political life! and to show how such an approach can cast a new and highly instructive light on a variety of controversial! seemingly intractable problems of tolerance! civil disobedience! democracy and consent. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Basic Idea: 1. The state as a structure of intelligibility; Part II. Philosophical Foundations of the State: 2. Politics, prudence and philosophy; 3. The post-Kantian convergence; Part III. The Idea of the State: 4. The omnicompetent state: toleration and limited government; 5. The absolute state: authority and resistance; 6. The organic state: democracy and freedom; Index.
