Fraternity and Politics
Author | : Fred E. Baumann |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1998-10-30 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015043805954 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Download or read book Fraternity and Politics written by Fred E. Baumann and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-10-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baumann examines the recurring efforts to establish fraternal relations in modern societies by political, and in particular, radical means. He proceeds by examining a series of related examples, beginning with a brief discussion of the metaphor for fraternity itself, and then he turns to a consideration of the historical development of the quest for fraternity. He first examines the quest for fraternity among the Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s. Baumann then turns to the sans-culottes before and during the period of the French Revolution. The third analysis is philosophical, rather than historical, and treats Jean-Paul Sartre's attempt to understand radically and thus justify the relation of fraternity to terror. His conclusion sums up the argument about the necessary self-contradiction and failure of the pursuit of political fraternity and points to the long-discarded concept of aesthetic education developed as an alternative to the political pursuit of fraternity by the poet and philospher Friedrich Schiller.