Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part One. The Original Formulation

1. Action and Human Existence

The Contours of Action
The Polarities of Human Existence
Uniqueness and Uniformity
Lasting and Passing
Freedom and Necessity
Freedom: A Closer Look
Necessity: Biological and Rational
Willing: The Textual Evidence
Some Implications
Public and Private: Spaces and Objects
A Communal Space
On the Public Character of Public Objects
The Norms of Public Action
Isonomy
Humanitas and Public Discourse
Conclusion

Part Two. Beyond World Alienation

Prelude

2. Consitituting a Worldly Depth

The Ethos of Worldliness
Insuring the Primacy of the Origin
Of Storytelling and the Roots of Cultural Self-Understanding
Of Culture and Cultural Mediation
Of Civics and Education
The Roman Roots of Authority
On Revolution: A Moment of Synthesis
Creating a New Tradition Out of a Revolutionary Moment
Conclusion

3. The Rectification of the Action-Ideal: Judgment, Common Sense, and a New Logos of Politics

Toward Judgment
On the Relationship of Judgment to Common Sense: The Genealogy of a Conception
The Early Period
The Middle Period
Judgment and The Human Condition
Actor-Spectator Relations: A Path Untaken
On Revolution and Authority
The Maturation of a Conception
"The Crisis in Culture"
"Truth and Politics"
Thinking: Judging, and Common Sense
The Kant Lectures and Their Significance
Mediating Differences of Taste: The Judging Spectator and the Sensus Communis
A Critical Distance
Between Judgment and the Sensus Communis: The Role of Concepts and Examples
From the Judging Spectator to the Judging Actor
Genius and Taste
The Specificity of Action Oriented Judgment
In a Deliberative Space
Judgment, Action and the Will: An Interlude
A New Logos of Politics
The Action Ideal as Criterion: Does the New Logos Measure Up?
Beyond the New Logos: A Critique
Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index