Book Review: Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg (eds), Political Animals and Animal Politics
@article{Milburn2016BookRM, title={Book Review: Marcel Wissenburg and David Schlosberg (eds), Political Animals and Animal Politics}, author={Josh Milburn}, journal={Political Studies Review}, year={2016}, volume={14}, pages={427 - 428} }
political implications, by way of essays focused upon four major thinkers: Plato, Niccolò Machiavelli, Immanuel Kant and Max Weber. Webel provides both historical context and a lucid summary exposition of the ideas of these four. Plato is the first perfector of the idea and (quasi-mystical) ideal of theoretical reason, whose reason doubles as a fantasia on how to justify and enforce Plato’s preferred aristocratic regime. Machiavelli is the relativiser, who detached the mental faculty of reason…