{"product_id":"politics-and-the-imagination-9780691142289","title":"Politics and the Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn politics, utopian's do not have a monopoly on imagination. The author argues that even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, require imaginative acts of some kind. He explores the role of imagination in politics, particularly how imaginative constructs interact with political reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] terrific collection... Philosophy fails, writes Geuss, mostly by being unhistorical; he makes the case for understanding politics only in a richly articulated historical context.\"--Brendan Boyle, BookForum \"[A] miniature classic worthy of strenuous rereading.\"--Fred Inglis, Times Higher Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403769160023,"sku":"9780691142289","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691142289.jpg?v=1730484489","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politics-and-the-imagination-9780691142289","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}