Politics and Regimes - Religion & Public Life

Sommario

The Western State as a Paradigm: Learning from History, Epistemological Circularity as a Justification for Liberal Democracy, The End of the Cold War and the Collapse of Conservative and Liberal Statism, The Vryheid Front on South Africa's Constitution, The Search for Reality: Trilling versus Parrington, Good Death: Is Euthanasia the Answer?

Info autore

Paul Gottfried

Riassunto

The essays grouped together in this volume look from differing angles at the crisis of condence faced by the contemporary state. What we see is the decline of the authority once associated with the Western nation-state as a source of public order and as a defender of cultural identity.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Gottfried, Paul Edward Gottfried, Ph D Paul Edward Gottfried, Gottfried Paul Edward, HUWA, Randy Huwa, Randy Gottfried Huwa
• Con la collaborazione di: Paul Gottfried (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138530324
• ISBN: 978-1-138-53032-4
• Pagine: 98
• Serie: Religion and Public Life
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structure & processes, Political structure and processes