Politics and the imagination

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Politics and the imagination

Raymond Geuss

Princeton University Press, c2010

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Bibliography: p. [187]-191

Includes index

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In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind. In this collection of recent essays, including his most overtly political writing yet, Geuss explores the role of imagination in politics, particularly how imaginative constructs interact with political reality. He uses decisions about the war in Iraq to explore the peculiar ways in which politicians can be deluded and citizens can misunderstand their leaders. He also examines critically what he sees as one of the most serious delusions of western political thinking--the idea that a human society is always best conceived as a closed system obeying fixed rules. And, in essays on Don Quixote, museums, Celan's poetry, Heidegger's brother Fritz, Richard Rorty, and bourgeois philosophy, Geuss reflects on how cultural artifacts can lead us to embrace or reject conventional assumptions about the world. While paying particular attention to the relative political roles played by rule-following, utilitarian calculations of interest, and aspirations to lead a collective life of a certain kind, Geuss discusses a wide range of related issues, including the distance critics need from their political systems, the extent to which history can enlighten politics, and the possibility of utopian thinking in a world in which action retains its urgency.

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Preface vii Acknowledgments xv CHAPTER I: Political Judgment in Its Historical Context 1 CHAPTER II: The Politics of Managing Decline 17 CHAPTER III: Moralism and Realpolitik 31 CHAPTER IV: On the Very Idea of a Metaphysics of Right 43 CHAPTER V: The Actual and Another Modernity Order and Imagination in Don Quixote 61 CHAPTER VI: Culture as Ideal and as Boundary 81 CHAPTER VII: On Museums 96 CHAPTER VIII: Celan's Meridian 117 CHAPTER IX: Heidegger and His Brother 142 CHAPTER X Richard Rorty at Princeton Personal Recollections 151 CHAPTER XI: Melody as Death 164 CHAPTER XII: On Bourgeois Philosophy and the Concept of "Criticism" 167 Bibliography 187 Index 193

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