Tracks in Chaos

Philosophical Orientation and Political Reflection
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7344-8
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten

When political action is imperative, we can be tempted to look to philosophy for guiding principles. This project, however, historically has been doomed to fail. Throughout Tracks in Chaos, philosopher Raymond Geuss examines closely the consequences of this failure. In crisp and lucid prose, he ranges over topics that include political realism, reflection in politics, universalism, solidarity, our utopian aspirations, and the role of fear in motivating censorship. Geuss ultimately paints a picture that is both rich and uncompromising, as is his conclusion: that we must learn to accept incompleteness, contingency and pluralism in our search for orientation.

This is an incisive and elegant new collection of essays by one of our finest moral and political philosophers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Geuss, Raymond

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements

1. These interminable discussions that lead nowhere
2. He/she/they and we ourselves
4. Republic, democracy, electronics
5. Realism, yet again
6. Universalism
7. Must philosophy know its own history?
8. On Alasdair MacIntyre
9. Some varieties of utopia
10. Don't say that – you're frightening me
11. Solidarity
12. A conversation on politics

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Raymond Geuss is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His books include Seeing Double, Not Thinking Like a Liberal, Changing the Subject, Reality and Its Dreams, Who Needs a World View?, and The Idea of a Critical Theory.