German Political Thought and the Discourse of Platonism Finding the Way Out of the Cave /

• Main Author: Bishop, Paul (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Philology.; Linguistics.; Political theory.; Political philosophy.; German language.; Intellectual life-History.; Idealism, German.; Language and Literature.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.; German.; Intellectual Studies.; German Idealism.

Taking Plato's allegory of the cave as its starting-point, this book demonstrates how later European thinkers can be read as a reaction and a response to key aspects of this allegory and its discourse of enchainment and liberation. Focusing on key thinkers in the tradition of European (and spec...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: What is politics?
• Chapter 2: Plato and the cave
• Chapter 3: Aristotle and the empirical approach
• Chapter 4: Rousseau and the social contract
• Chapter 5: Kant and the categorical imperative
• Chapter 6: Hegel and the dialectic
• Chapter 7: Marx & Engels: the revolution
• Chapter 8: Nietzsche & Heidegger: a glance to the Right
• Chapter 9: The Frankfurt School - Adorno & Horkheimer
• Chapter 10: Habermas and communicative action
• Chapter 11: By Way of Conclusion.