1. First prologue: horizons of political reflection 2. Second prologue: Freud, Weber, and political philosophy 3. Hannah Arendt: the performativity of politics 4. Michael Oakeshott: life's adventure 5. Leo Strauss: the politics of philosophy 6. Karl Loewith: in awe of the cosmos 7. Excursus on nature and history in the Strauss-Loewith correspondence 8. Eric Voegelin: modernity's vortex 9. Simone Weil: the politics of the soul 10. Hans-Georg Gadamer: philosophy without hubris 11. Jurgen Habermas: politics as rational discourse 12. Michel Foucault's carceral society 13. Alasdair MacIntyre: fragmentation and wholeness 14. Short excursus on the rise and decline of communitarianism as a political philosophy 15. John Rawls and the death of political philosophy 16. Richard Rorty: knocking philosophy off its pedestal or, the death of political philosophy postmodernized 17. Epilogue: on not throwing in the towel.
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