Politics as a practical science / Wilhelm Hennis ; translated by Keith Tribe
Imprint
Houndmills ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Edition
1st ed
Descript
xviii, 250p. ; 22 cm
CONTENT
The problem of the German conception of the state. -- The idea of office and the concept of democracy. -- Democratisation: concept and problematic. -- Legitimacy. On a category of civil society. -- Tocqueville's new political science. -- Goya's reason and the project of modernity. Seeking understanding of 'The dream of reason' (Capricho 43). -- 'Hellenic intellectual culture' and the origins of Weber's political thinking. -- Political science as a vocation. A personal account.