| Politics and Regimes Contributor(s): Gottfried, Paul (Editor) |
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ISBN: 156000908X ISBN-13: 9781560009085 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - Political Science |
| Series: Religion & Public Life |
| Physical Information: 108 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The essays grouped together in this volume look from differing angles at the crisis of condence faced by the contemporary state. What we see is the decline of the authority once associated with the Western nation-state as a source of public order and as a defender of cultural identity. Multiplying and contradictory rights claims, the breakdown of a shared political frame of reference, and attempts by public administration to micromanage society have all contributed to the threat to authority. What remains to be asked is whether the Western paradigm of the state can be restored to the basis of public faith. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gottfried, Paul Edward: - Paul Gottfried is professor of political science at Elizabethown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Search for Historical Meaning; Conservative Millenarians: The Romantic Experience in Bavaria; and Arthur Schopenhauer and the Heritage of European Pessimism. He is general editor of the Religion and Public Life Series. |
