Overview
- Offers precise account of two major world views of secular and non-secular, or more clearly human presence or divine (s) presence
- Provides an interesting account of modernity as manifested itself in the USA
- Explains how civility and civilization production result from human agency and does not depend on any ethnicity, culture, or historical epoch
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Theory of Presence (PET) and Civitas
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Front Matter
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Praxis, Civitates in History
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book deals with a concern of how humanity performs toward itself and how it performs within the public realm, and where it must be in relation with others. Public life is not solely about politics but also the political, i.e., intellectual, moral, economic, religious, and collective habits—including fashions and amusements, artefacts, histories, and legacies. This book argues that man raison d'être in worldly life is to have a civil presence and create civilization. It contends that what makes it possible is the coming together of “presence, ethos, and theatre” and their working in concert. The first half of this book elaborates on the nuances of these three pillars, and the second half offers three examples of civilizations that have succeeded to achieve this within what it claims to be three major worldviews that he calls “divine-immanence, the divine-transcendence, and human-immanence.”
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Farhang Rajaee is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Humanities at Carleton University, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Presence and the Political
Book Subtitle: Performing Human
Authors: Farhang Rajaee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59487-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59486-2Published: 22 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59489-3Published: 22 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59487-9Published: 21 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 279
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Sociology