The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and ReturnRowman & Littlefield, 2000 - 274 páginas This path-breaking and eloquent analysis of The Odyssey, and the way it has been interpreted by political philosophers throughout the centuries, has dramatic implications for the current state of political thought. This important book offers readers original insights into The Odyssey and it provides a new understanding of the classic works of Plato, Rousseau, Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno. Through his analysis Patrick J. Deneen requires readers to rethink the issues that are truly at the heart of our contemporary 'Culture Wars, ' and he encourages us to reassess our assumptions about the Western canon's virtues or viciousness. Deneen's penetrating exploration of Odysseus's and our own enduring battles between the dual temptations of homecoming and exploration, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, and relativism and universality provides an original perspective on contentious debates at the center of modern political theory and philosophy |
Contenido
The Odyssey as Political Theory | 27 |
Resolving the Ancient Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy Platos Odyssey | 81 |
The Harrowing of Rousseaus Emile | 131 |
Escaping the Dialectic Vico the Frankfurt School and the Dialectic of Enlightenment | 169 |
Against Cosmopolitanism Resisting the Sirens Song | 211 |
Illustrations | 243 |
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| 267 | |
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The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return Patrick J. Deneen Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return Patrick J. Deneen Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return Patrick J. Deneen Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
Términos y frases comunes
Achaeans Achilles Adeimantus Agamemnon Allan Bloom ancient Athena attempt Benardete Book Calypso Calypso's offer canon Cave Chicago choose Circe citizen civilization claims cosmopolitanism Critical Theory critique culture Cyclopes dangerous death described Dialectic of Enlightenment divine Elpenor Emile Emile's epics Eumaeus existence explicitly fate finally Frankfurt School Giambattista Vico Glaucon gods Greek Hades hence hero heroic homecoming Homer Horkheimer and Adorno human Iliad inasmuch interpretation island Ithaca Jean-Jacques Rousseau journey justice knowledge lesson limits live Marx Menelaus modern mortal myth Myth of Er mythic nature nevertheless nostos Nussbaum Odysseus Odysseus's Odysseus's choice offer of immortality one's origins particular philosopher Plato poem poet poetic poetry Political Theory possibility rational reason rejection Republic reveals Rousseau seek sense sensus communis Sirens social Socrates Sophie Sophie's soul suggests Teiresias Telemachus temptation thought tion trans transcendence Troy underworld University Press Vico Vico's words writes York Zeus
Pasajes populares
Página 22 - The existing order is complete before the new work arrives; for order to persist after the supervention of novelty, the whole existing order must be, if ever so slightly, altered; and so the relations, proportions, values of each work of art toward the whole are readjusted; and this is conformity between the old and the new.
Página 2 - ... whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.
Página 5 - The necessity that he shall conform, that he shall cohere, is not onesided ; what happens when a new work of art is \ created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art which preceded it. The existing monuments form an ideal order among themselves, which is modified by the introduction of the new (the really new) work of art among them.
Página 7 - Against these there can be no prescription ; against these no agreement is binding : these admit no temperament, and no compromise : anything withheld from their full demand is so much of fraud and injustice. Against these their rights of men let no government look for security in the length of its continuance, or in the justice and lenity of its administration.
Página 7 - Whilst they are possessed by these notions, it is vain to talk to them of the practice of their ancestors, the fundamental laws of their country, the fixed form of a constitution, whose merits are confirmed by the solid test of long experience, and an increasing public strength and national prosperity.
Referencias a este libro
The Cosmopolitan Evolution: Travel, Travel Narratives, and the Revolution of ... Matthew Binney Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |