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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ryan R. HolstonPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438492094ISBN 10: 143849209 Pages: 218 Publication Date: 01 March 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Rousseau’s Divorce of the Good from History 2. Kant Formalizes the Divorce 3. Democracy’s Deliberation 4. The Rehabilitation of Prejudice 5. Tradition’s Deliberation 6. Deliberation and Modernity Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsGadamer saw the fruitfulness of his hermeneutics in its possible applications to other fields. Ryan R. Holston's insightful study achieves just such an application in political theory by showing how Gadamer's fusion of morality with history could help us overcome the instrumentalist understanding of morality, prevalent in modern deliberative theory, which construes values as something from which we could stand apart and look at from the outside. No, Holston powerfully argues, morality is who we are and cannot be viewed apart from our historical being. Renewing the debate between Gadamer and Habermas, this study successfully criticizes the utopian and irreal nature of many strands of contemporary democratic theory. - Jean Grondin, University of Montreal """Holston presents a fascinating history of rationalism that points to epistemological issues going back to Plato."" — Modern Age ""Gadamer saw the fruitfulness of his hermeneutics in its possible applications to other fields. Ryan R. Holston's insightful study achieves just such an application in political theory by showing how Gadamer's fusion of morality with history could help us overcome the instrumentalist understanding of morality, prevalent in modern deliberative theory, which construes values as something from which we could stand apart and look at from the outside. No, Holston powerfully argues, morality is who we are and cannot be viewed apart from our historical being. Renewing the debate between Gadamer and Habermas, this study successfully criticizes the utopian and irreal nature of many strands of contemporary democratic theory."" — Jean Grondin, University of Montreal" Author InformationRyan R. Holston is Professor and Jonathan M. Daniels '61 Chair at the Virginia Military Institute. He is the coeditor (with Justin D. Garrison) of The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age, also published by SUNY Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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