Auteur: George Kateb

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a great moral philosopher. One of his principle contributions is the theory of self-reliance, a view of democratic individuality. During much of his life, Emerson was consider …

Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant’s Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt’s discussion of j …

Since its first publication in 1859, few works of political philosophy have provoked such continuous controversy as John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, a passionate argument on behalf of freedom of self-e …

George Kateb has been one of the most respected and influential political theorists of the last quarter century. His work stands apart from that of many of his contemporaries and resists easy summary …

Amid the twentieth century’s seemingly overwhelming problems, some thinkers dared to envisage a world order governed by utopian proposals that would eliminate–or at least alleviate–the evils of soc …

Amid the twentieth century’s seemingly overwhelming problems, some thinkers dared to envisage a world order governed by utopian proposals that would eliminate–or at least alleviate–the evils of soc …

We often speak of the dignity owed to a person. And dignity is a word that regularly appears in political speeches. Charters are promulgated in its name, and appeals to it are made when people all ov …

We often speak of the dignity owed to a person. And dignity is a word that regularly appears in political speeches. Charters are promulgated in its name, and appeals to it are made when people all ov …

One of the most influential philosophers of liberalism turns his attention to the complexity of Lincoln’s political thought. At the center of Lincoln’s career is an intense passion for equality, a pa …