{"product_id":"9781316120477","title":"Politics and the Search for the Common Good","description":"Rethinking politics in a new vocabulary, Hans Sluga challenges the firmly held assumption that there exists a single common good which politics is meant to realize. He argues that politics is not a natural but a historical phenomenon, and not a single thing but a multiplicity of political forms and values only loosely related. He contrasts two traditions in political philosophy: a 'normative theorizing' that extends from Plato to John Rawls and a newer 'diagnostic practice' that emerged with Marx and Nietzsche and has found its three most prominent twentieth-century practitioners in Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. He then examines the sources of diagnostic political thinking, analyzes its achievements, and offers a critical assessment of its limitations. His important book will be of interest to a wide range of upper-level students and scholars in political philosophy, political theory, and the history of ideas.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104274170096,"sku":"9781316120477","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781316120477_p0.jpg?v=1763707650","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781316120477","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}