Does political philosophy have anything significant to say to
citizens facing the real political world in a modern democracy?
Addressing the thought of six major twentieth-century
philosophers--Bertrand Russell, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Bruce
Ackerman, Michael Oakeshott, and Alasdair MacIntyre--Benjamin
Barber maintains that each of them has aided in the "conquest of
politics" by abstract and speculative philosophy. They and others
have focused on philosophy, particularly "thinking about thinking,"
to the neglect of the rough-and-ready situations of the political
arena. In this lively and accessible book Barber proposes a way of
doing political philosophy that takes practical politics into
account: the equality and mutuality of theory and practice, he
argues, should be the aim of engaged political thought suited to a
democratic age.
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