海外新书速递 | 《不像一个自由主义者那样思考》

Not Thinking like a Liberal

[1] 书籍信息

Raymond Geuss, Not Thinking like a Liberal, Harvard University Press, May 2022.

[2] 作者简介

Raymond Geuss (born 1946), Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy. Geuss is primarily known for three reasons: his early account of ideology critique in The Idea of a Critical Theory; a recent collection of works instrumental to the emergence of Political Realism in Anglophone political philosophy over the last decade, including Philosophy and Real Politics; and a variety of free-standing essays on issues including aesthetics, Nietzsche, contextualism, phenomenology, intellectual history, culture and ancient philosophy.

[3] 内容简介

In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world’s most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccentric early years influenced his lifelong critique of liberalism.

Liberalism is so amorphous and pervasive that for most people in the West it is background noise, the natural state of affairs. But there are nooks and crannies in every society where the prevailing winds don’t blow. Raymond Geuss grew up some distance from the cultural mainstream and recounts here the unusual perspective he absorbed: one in which liberal capitalism was synonymous with moral emptiness and political complacency.

Not Thinking like a Liberal is a concise tour of diverse intellectual currents—from the Counter-Reformation and communism to pragmatism and critical theory—that shaped Geuss’s skeptical stance toward liberalism. The bright young son of a deeply Catholic steelworker, Geuss was admitted in 1959 to an unusual boarding school on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Outside was Eisenhower’s America. Inside Geuss was schooled by Hungarian priests who tried to immunize students against the twin dangers of oppressive communism and vapid liberal capitalism. From there Geuss went on to university in New York in the early days of the Vietnam War and to West Germany, where critical theory was experiencing a major revival.

This is not a repeatable journey. In tracing it, Geuss reminds us of the futility of abstracting lessons from context and of seeking a universal view from nowhere. At the same time, he examines the rise and fall of major political theories of the past sixty years. An incisive thinker attuned to both the history and the future of ideas, Geuss looks beyond the horrors of authoritarianism and the shallow freedom of liberalism to glimpse a world of genuinely new possibilities.

[4] 书籍目录

Preface

Introduction

1. My Fate

2. Liberalism

3. Authoritarianism

4. Religion, Language, and History

5. Human Variety

6. So, Liberal after All?

7. Interlude: Nostalgia, a Trip to the City, Arrival

8. Robert Paul Wolff: The Poverty of Liberalism

9. Sidney Morgenbesser: Philosophy as Practical Surrealism

10. Robert Denoon Cumming: Human Nature and History

11. From Heidegger to Adorno

12. Past, Present, Future

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

更多信息请参考：

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674270343

（说明：本书信息编译自网上公开资料。欲购图书，请自行检索Amazon等海外网站。）

近期书讯