Conceptualizing Politics

Capitalism, translated by T. Parsons (New York: Norton 2009), and the sections on the 
religion of China (Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1951) and on ancient Judaism (also Free 
Press, 1952).
 22  The most illuminating among them still is Lukes 2005, notwithstanding my disagree-
ment expressed below on one of its positions.
 23  For this distinction cf. Rawls 1999, 5–9.

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22  What is politics?
 24  On time and the future being elements of the upcoming reshuffling of the concept of 
politics see Chapter 7, Part II.
 25 Better known is Weber’s quote from The Profession and Vocation of Politics: ‘Anyone 
engaged in politics is striving for power’ (Weber 1919, 311).
 26  Thomas Hobbes, John Locke (1632–1704), Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Imma-
nuel Kant (1724–1804).
 27  A broader look at how ‘dark’ politics is mirrored in the arts should include film and TV, 
from Eisenstein’s Ivan  the Terrible I–II (1944–1958) to All the President’s Men, from Frost/
Nixon to House of Cards.
 28 The term (originally Entlastung) was introduced by the German social philosopher 
Arnold Gehlen (1904–1976) to mark the role of social institutions for human life.