Professor Hans Sluga: Politics and the Search for Common Good (Ch. 9)
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Chapter 9: The last chapter unless we can talk Hans into reading something else!
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
Professor Hans Sluga: Politics and the Search for Common Good (Ch. 9)