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Reality and Its Dreams
Raymond Geuss
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Description for Reality and Its Dreams
Hardcover. One of political philosophy's most trenchant and inventive critics challenges the field's normative turn, arguing that the study of politics should focus on real politics, where normative judgments arise from concrete configurations of power. Raymond Geuss shows how this can be done without succumbing to a toxic relativism or abandoning utopianism. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
In Reality and Its Dreams, one of the most inventive voices in political philosophy and a trenchant critic of the field's dominant assumptions, challenges the normative turn -the idea that the right approach to politics is to start from thinking abstractly about our normative views and then, when they have been clarified and systematized, apply them to judging political structures, decisions, and events. Rather, Raymond Geuss claims, the study of politics should focus on the sphere of real politics, not least because normative judgments always arise from concrete configurations of power, including ideological power. It is possible to ... Read more
In Reality and Its Dreams, one of the most inventive voices in political philosophy and a trenchant critic of the field's dominant assumptions, challenges the normative turn -the idea that the right approach to politics is to start from thinking abstractly about our normative views and then, when they have been clarified and systematized, apply them to judging political structures, decisions, and events. Rather, Raymond Geuss claims, the study of politics should focus on the sphere of real politics, not least because normative judgments always arise from concrete configurations of power, including ideological power. It is possible to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
648g
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674504950
SKU
V9780674504950
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About Raymond Geuss
Raymond Geuss is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
Reviews for Reality and Its Dreams
These essays are exhilarating evidence of their author's wide, thoughtful, and sharply perceptive reading of the signs and signals of our culture.
Hans Sluga, University of California, Berkeley
Hans Sluga, University of California, Berkeley