Professor Hans Sluga: Politics and the Search for Common Good (Ch. 8)

Chapter 8; "A Fundamental Change in Political Paradigms"

https://zoom.us/j/97275730034?pwd=aGN6U3VqVTlHTkhKUWVEdFZlUjdpQT09

Hans Sluga is attending!

Hans Sluga is the William and Trudy Ausfahl Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at UC Berkeley. Sluga is a reknown Frege and Wittgenstein scholar. His latest book is described on Amazon as follows:

Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is meant to realize. He argues that politics is not a natural but a historical phenomenon, and not a single thing but a multiplicity of political forms and values only loosely related. He contrasts two traditions in political philosophy: a 'normative theorizing' that extends from Plato to John Rawls and a newer 'diagnostic practice' that emerged with Marx and Nietzsche and has found its three most prominent twentieth-century practitioners in Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. He then examines the sources of diagnostic political thinking, analyzes its achievements, and offers a critical assessment of its limitations. His important book will be of interest to a wide range of upper-level students and scholars in political philosophy, political theory, and the history of ideas.
Hans has tentatively agreed to join the meetup so this should be a great opportunity.

The book is available on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Search-Common-Good-Sluga-dp-1107671132/dp/1107671132/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

**Please read chapter 8