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TRUMP AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY KARTONIERT (TB)

This book seeks to address the relation of political philosophy and Donald Trump as a political
phenomenon through the notions of patriotism  cosmopolitanism  and civic virtue. Political
philosophers have been prescient in explaining trends that may explain our political
misgivings. Madison warned during the debates on the Constitution that democracies are
vulnerable to factions based on passion for personalities and beliefs  various continental
thinkers have addressed the problem of nihilism-the modern loss of faith in objective standards
of truth and morality-that in Max Weber's analysis pointed to the importance of charisma  in
Carl Schmitt's to the idea that politics is essentially rooted in the definition of friends and
enemies  and in early Heidegger resulted in the emphasis on the enduring significance of local
rather than cosmopolitan values. The former concerns-regarding demagoguery  charisma and
nihilism-will enable an evaluation of Trump as a political character  while the latter
concerns-regarding the status of universal versus local values-will enable us to evaluate the
content of Trumpism. Taken together  these essays seek to advance the public conversation about
the relationship between the rise of Trump and the ideological forces that seek to justify that
rise.

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