:Thinking Without a Banister in the Twentieth Century
/ Tracy B. Strong
Chicago ; London
: University of Chicago Press
, 2012.
xiv, 406 pages , ill
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The world as we find it - Kant and the death of God - Nietzsche: the tragic ethos and the spirit of music - Max Weber, magic, and the politics of social scientific objectivity - "What have we to do with morals?": Nietzsche and Weber on the politics of morality - Sigmund Freud and the heroism of knowledge - Lenin and the calling of the party - Carl Schmitt and the exceptional sovereign - Martin Heidegger and the space of the political - Without a banister: Hannah Arendt and roads not taken - Conclusion: the world as it finds us.
Political science, Western countries, History, 20th century