Ronald Beiner is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the editor of Hannah Arendt: Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy (1982) and the author of Political Judgment (1983); What's the Matter with Liberalism? (1992), which was awarded the Canadian Political Science Association's C. B. Macpherson Prize in 1994; Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit (1997); Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship (2003); and Civil Religion (Cambridge, 2011).
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 Löwith: in awe of the cosmos
7. Excursus on nature and history in the Strauss¿Löwith correspondence
8. Eric Voegelin: modernity's vortex
9. Simone Weil: the politics of the soul
10. Hans-Georg Gadamer: philosophy without hubris
11. Jürgen 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.
