Books in the 20th Century Political Thinkers series

This philosophical-political profile offers an intellectual reconstruction of Jurgen Habermas' defining historical and existential situations, his generational profile and interventions, his impact on as well as the discontents that his life work generates on others.

This analysis of the social and political thought of Simone Weil pays particular attention to Weil's concept of justice as compassion. It describes the ways in which Weil's concept of justice stands in contrast with liberal "rights-based" views of justice and focuses upon aspects of Weil's thought.

In "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn", Daniel Mahoney presents a philosophical perspective on the political condition of modern man through an exegesis and analysis of Solzhenitsyn's work.

Examines the economist John Kenneth Galbraith through the lense of political theory. This book illustrates the link between politics and economics in American political discourse by locating Galbraith in a framework of liberal and conservative theory, controversy, alternatives, and policy.

The engaging and inquiring mind of French philosopher Jacques Maritain reflected on varied subjects arising from his diverse studies. In this book, James Schall explores Maritain's political philosophy.

In this long-overdue analysis of Scottish political philosopher John Macmurray, Frank G. Kirkpatrick traces the influences and development of Macmurray's thought. Through his study, Kirkpatrick explores the extraordinary resonances of Macmurray's political thought in modern philosophers and comments on his enduring significance.

Charles Taylor's work as an intellectual historian, epistemologist and normative political theorist has made him a leading figure in contemporary social philosophy. This book examines the problem of political fragmentation through an analysis of Taylor's thought and politics.

Avnon analyses Buber's corpus of mature writings, revealing the radical nature of his responses to the most fundamental questions of human existence. The book re-examines conventional notions of the role of language, thought, and writing.

Offers a fresh perspective on Richard Rorty by situating his work in the arena of political theory. Reinterpreting Rorty's antirepresentationalism as a Romantic affirmation of the power of imaginative writing, this work provides an assessment of this important thinker's value to the political discourse of the 21st century.

This book introduces students to the life and thought of one of the giants of 20th-century French intellectual life, and demonstrates the centrality of political reason to Aron's philosophy of history and ideological thinking.

Paul Ricoeur has developed a substantial and distinctive body of political thought. This study looks at the paradoxical character of the domain of politics and provides an approach to topics such as the relationship among politics, economics and ethics.

Martin Heidegger opposed, at the deepest level, everything that informs our liberal, cosmopolitan aspirations as well as the global, technological civilization that seems to be inevitable. Part of the "20th Century Political Thinkers" series, this title explores the significance of Heidegger's political thought.