Political Philosophy : What It Is and Why It Matters (Hardcover)

1. First prologue: horizons of political reflection; 2. Second prologue: Freud, Weber, and political philosophy; 3. Hannah Arendt: the performativity of politics; 4. Michael Oakeshott: life's adventure; 5. Leo Strauss: the politics of philosophy; 6. Karl Lowith: in awe of the cosmos; 7. Excursus on nature and history in the Strauss?Lowith correspondence; 8. Eric Voegelin: modernity's vortex; 9. Simone Weil: the politics of the soul; 10. Hans-Georg Gadamer: philosophy without hubris; 11. Jurgen Habermas: politics as rational discourse; 12. Michel Foucault's carceral society; 13. Alasdair MacIntyre: fragmentation and wholeness; 14. Short excursus on the rise and decline of communitarianism as a political philosophy; 15. John Rawls and the death of political philosophy; 16. Richard Rorty: knocking philosophy off its pedestal; or, the death of political philosophy postmodernized; 17. Epilogue: on not throwing in the towel.