Hannah Arendt's Fame Rests on the Wrong Foundation
... who or where are the other political philosophers? The last great political American philosopher, John Dewey, died in 1952. Since then American philosophy -- with the partial exception of Richard Rorty -- has vanished into technical issues; within the subfield of political philosophy, the largest of its figures, John Rawls, remains abstract and insular. His work may quicken the attenuated pulse of academic philosophers, but it does not move the rest of us. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
