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American Republic: Essays on the Nature of Politics

American Republic: Essays on the Nature of Politics

James Thomas Snyder
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Hannah Arendt's Was ist Politik?, written more than a half-century ago, asked a question so deceptively simple the founders of Western political philosophy never bothered to answer it. Yet understanding politics for the sake of itself, like understanding the nature of gravity for the sake of physics, wasn't important for the first political thinkers. Nonetheless they did not feel impeded by their ignorance from writing laws, designing governments, and prescribing rules by which sovereigns should reign.

American Republic takes up the work of Arendt and other latter-day political thinkers to correct this ancient theoretical omission. In this short book and series of pungent essays, author James Snyder writes about politics, the concept of the political, and the individual political experience in order to expand our understanding of what politics really is. Only through this deeper theoretical knowledge of politics will we have a better appreciation for democracy, political freedoms, and the power of the individual in a republican government.
Language
English
Pages
110
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Samizdat House
Release
July 22, 2013

American Republic: Essays on the Nature of Politics

James Thomas Snyder
2/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Hannah Arendt's Was ist Politik?, written more than a half-century ago, asked a question so deceptively simple the founders of Western political philosophy never bothered to answer it. Yet understanding politics for the sake of itself, like understanding the nature of gravity for the sake of physics, wasn't important for the first political thinkers. Nonetheless they did not feel impeded by their ignorance from writing laws, designing governments, and prescribing rules by which sovereigns should reign.

American Republic takes up the work of Arendt and other latter-day political thinkers to correct this ancient theoretical omission. In this short book and series of pungent essays, author James Snyder writes about politics, the concept of the political, and the individual political experience in order to expand our understanding of what politics really is. Only through this deeper theoretical knowledge of politics will we have a better appreciation for democracy, political freedoms, and the power of the individual in a republican government.
Language
English
Pages
110
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
Samizdat House
Release
July 22, 2013

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