Politics and the Search for the Common Good

by Hans D. Sluga

Book Overview

Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is meant to realize. He argues that politics is not a natural but a historical phenomenon, and not a single thing but a multiplicity of political forms and values only loosely related. He contrasts two traditions in political philosophy: a 'normative theorizing' that extends from Plato to John Rawls and a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107671132
• ISBN13: 9781107671133
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"