Libros de Raymond Geuss

A Philosopher Looks At Work

Who Needs A World View?

• 208 páginas
• One of the world’s most provocative philosophers attacks the obsession with comprehensive intellectual systems—the perceived need for a world view.

Not Thinking Like A Liberal

• In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world's most..

History And Illusion In Politics

Reality And Its Dreams

• 308 páginas
• Raymond Geuss is one of the most inventive and distinctive voices in contemporary political philosophy and a trenchant critic of the field’s dominant assumptions. In Reality and Its Dreams, he challenges the “normative...

A World Without Why

• Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite appearances to the contrary, the human and natural world...

Political Judgement

• 354 páginas
• From Plato to Max Weber, the attempt to understand political judgement took the form of a struggle to define the relationship between politics and morals. This book by leading international scholars in the fields of history, philosophy and politics restor...

Politics And The Imagination

• 216 páginas
• In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind. In this collection of recent essays, including his most overtly political writ...

Philosophy And Real Politics

• 116 páginas
• Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics , Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers shoul...

Outside Ethics

• Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political philosophy, Raymond Geuss here presents essays bound...

Public Goods, Private Goods

• 148 páginas
• Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should weigh heavily in our attitude to human goods. It is, for...

History And Illusion In Politics

• In his new book, distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss critically examines some of the..

Morality, Culture, And History

• Raymond Geuss is the author of The Idea of a Critical Theory (CUP 1981), a now classic study of the

Morality, Culture, And History

• 207 páginas
• Raymond Geuss has been a distinctive contributor to the analysis and evaluation of German philosophy and to recent debates in ethics. In this new collection he treats a variety of topics in ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of history with special...

The Sources Of Normativity

• 273 páginas
• Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does their authority over us - or ours over one another - come...

The Idea Of A Critical Theory

• 100 páginas
• Habermas and earlier members of the Frankfurt School have presented critical theory as a radically new form of knowledge. It is differentiated from the natural sciences as essentially 'reflective': the knowledge it provides guides us towards enlightenment...