The Active Life - Miller's Metaphysics of Democracy (Hardcover, New)

The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative lives is taken up in this innovative and wide-ranging examination of John William Miller's effort of forge a metaphysics of democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Miller's actualist philosophy--its scope, its systematic character, and its dialectical form. Michael J. McGandy persuasively sets Miller's actualism in the context of Hannah Arendt's understanding of the active life and skillfully presents actualism as a response to Whitman's challenge to craft a democratic form of metaphysics. McGandy concludes that Miller reveals how the philosophical and the political are inextricably connected, how there is no active life without the contemplative life, and that the contemplative life is founded in the active life.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Release date:	September 2005
First published:	November 2005
Authors:	Michael J McGandy
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	252
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-6537-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	0-7914-6537-3
Barcode:	9780791465370

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