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Peter J. Steinberger
Researcher at Reed College
Publications - 33
Citations - 340
Peter J. Steinberger is an academic researcher from Reed College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Hegelianism. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 32 publications receiving 326 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter J. Steinberger include University of Denver.
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The Concept of Political Judgment
TL;DR: Steberger as discussed by the authors develops an original model of how political judgements are made and how we justify calling some of them "good." He lays the groundwork with a discussion of the ideas of Machiavelli, de Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Arendt, and Oakeshott on the nature of politics.
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The Idea of the State
TL;DR: In this article, the basic idea of the state as a structure of intelligibility is discussed, and the post-Kantian convergence of the idea of state is discussed in detail.
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Hannah Arendt on Judgment
TL;DR: This paper examined Hannah Arendt's views on judgment as they emerge from her account of political action and concluded that her account ultimately fails to answer the most central questions about judgment, and that the role of judgment as it relates to, and is distinguished from, a variety of other mental faculties.
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Hobbes, Rousseau and the Modern Conception of the State
TL;DR: In the first half of the essay as discussed by the authors, the authors examine exactly what it is that the social contract is thought to have created and propose in that context a fundamental distinction, shared by Hobbes and Rousseau, between an authorizing entity that constitutes the legitimate foundation of the state and an instrumental entity the activity of which has been legitimated by the former.