This course surveys important political thinkers who shared the same phenomenological horizons as we late moderns. Thinkers examined in any given year may include Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Gramsci, Cassirer, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Arendt, Voegelin and Foucault. The course explores the explicit and implicit philosophical ground – metaphysical, ontological and epistemological – that guided each thinker and never loses sight of his/her particular response to the Aristotelean search for “the good life”.
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