Contents
Introduction
Part One. Persons in Politics: Empiricism and Political Philosophy
1. The True Form of Governments: The Constitutional Movements of Power
Part Two. Persons, Creativity, and Modern Politics
2. Modern Boredom, the Human Element, and Creative Politics
3. A Political Ontology of Persons
Part Three. Dimensions of Persons in Politics
4. Friendship as Precondition and Consequence of Creativity in Politics
5. Can Politics Be Creative? Theory and Empirical Evidence
6. On Schabert’s “Creative Person in Politics”
Part Four. Case Studies of Persons in Politics
7. Breaking Routine and Adjusting Anew: Elections, Persons, Local Politics
8. Between Wisdom and Knowledge: The Politics of Creativity in a Post-Communist World
Part Five. The Methodology of Persons in Politics
9. The Primacy of Persons? Why Not? But a Disenchanted One: A French Sociologist Visits Schabertpolis
Selected Bibliography of the Works of Tilo Schabert on Personsin Politics
Contributors
Index