Description
These terrific essays confirm Raymond Geuss's status as one of the most thoughtful, honest, careful, original, and politically engaged philosophers of our time. Displaying Geuss's rich erudition in European languages, history, literature, art, and music, and his unique capacity to use philosophy to illuminate current political conundrums, these essays are attuned both to the most delicate dimensions of human experience and subjectivity and the cruder phenomena of war, planetary collapse, party politics, and bourgeois complacency. This is a rich and wonderful book. -- Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley These essays are elegant and erudite, as well as unfailingly insightful and interesting. A very fine collection. -- Daniel Brudney, University of Chicago
About the Author
Raymond Geuss teaches philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books include "Philosophy and Real Politics, Outside Ethics", and "Public Goods, Private Goods" (all Princeton).
Reviews
"[A] terrific collection... Philosophy fails, writes Geuss, mostly by being unhistorical; he makes the case for understanding politics only in a richly articulated historical context."--Brendan Boyle, BookForum "[A] miniature classic worthy of strenuous rereading."--Fred Inglis, Times Higher Education
Book Information
ISBN 9780691142289
Author Raymond Geuss
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 312g