Publisher's Synopsis
The core area of all philosophy is politics.The further philosophy moves away from this core area - into the areas of the purely individual, the abstract meta-physical, or the purely formalistic - the more insecure it becomes, the less it can do justice to its task. But their task is to bring the truth of human existence to the fore.Philosophy is to politics as Antaios is to earth. According to the myth, the earth was Antaius' mother, in contact with her he constantly renewed his strength.Returning to the core area of politics, philosophy had a chance to regain its strength.Since philosophy has existed, it has lived on the tension between the ignorance, the unconsciousness of merely individual practice, and the objectively demonstrable dependence, dependence and conditionality of this practice on general contexts. And it lives from the effort of individuals to hold out and assert their thought and world experience in this tension against a world of 'bad reality'
