Between Eternities

On the Tradition of Political Philosophy

AvGregory Bruce Smith

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Between Eternities reflects on the possibility of political philosophy as an ongoing, architectonic activity that is necessarily linked to both the past and future. Almost all contemporary work in political philosophy either studies the subject with an eye to past tradition_choosing a winner from that tradition and then deducing what follows from the posited premises in a thoroughly modern, constructivist fashion_or else limits itself to drawing out what follows from already accepted premises and principles. There is almost no effort to reflect upon the prerequisites for the tradition being an ongoing undertaking that can have a unique future. Between Eternities attempts to set loose that thinking toward the future.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-05-13
Mått:155 x 232 x 40 mm
Vikt:1 048 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:668
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739120774

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Gregory B. Smith is professor of political science and philosophy affiliated with the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

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Gregory Smith's long engagement with postmodern thought has borne fruit in this monumental study of our philosophical and political present. In Between Eternities, Smith covers a myriad of topics, from Socratic dialectics to theoretical physics and international relations. His thesis, convincingly argued, is that political philosophy remains the architectonic science—for us no less than for Aristotle—because it alone can fashion a whole of ethics, politics, psychology, ontology, and epistemology. Smith's style is graceful and his point of view sharp-edged and confident.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction: Political Philosophy; Is There a Future Tradition?Part 2 Modern Constructivism or PhenomenologyChapter 3 Preface: Modernity and Its ClosureChapter 4 The "End of History" or a Portal to the FutureChapter 5 What is Political Philosophy: A Phenomenological ApproachChapter 6 Cacophony of Silence: Derrida's Deconstructionism and the Possibility of Political PhilosophyChapter 7 Machiavelli's The Prince and the Essence of ModernityChapter 8 Phenomenology or Constructivism: Robert Pippin's ModernityPart 9 Leo Strauss and the Tradition: An EngagementChapter 10 Preface: Remembrance and TraditionChapter 11 Who Was Leo Strauss?Chapter 12 Leo Strauss and the Straussians: An Anti-Democratic Cult?Chapter 13 Athens and Washington: Leo Strauss and the American RegimeChapter 14 On a Possible Epicurean Garden for PhilosophyChapter 15 On Cropsey's World: Joseph Cropsey and the Tradition of Political PhilosophyChapter 16 Between Platonism and Postmodernism: Plato's Emendation of Socratism in the TrilogyChapter 17 Leo Strauss and Martin HeideggerPart 18 The Non-Metaphysical Plato: Second Beginnings?Chapter 19 Preface: Plato, Platonism, and a Second BeginningChapter 20 Dialogue and Dialectic in Plato's PhaedoChapter 21 Political Philosophy and Eros: Plato's Socrates in the SymposiumChapter 22 Plato's Parmenides: Socratism and the Origins of Platonic Political PhilosophyChapter 23 Aristotle on Reason and Its LimitsPart 24 Political Philosophy After Modernity?Chapter 25 Preface: Openings Toward the PostmodernChapter 26 Legitimacy, International Morality, and the Postmodern Global FutureChapter 27 Jerusalem and Washington: Political Philosophy and TheologyChapter 28 Ontology, Technology, Poetry, or Mandarin Pastime?Chapter 29 The Queen of the Sciences: Political Philosophy or BiologyChapter 30 Political Philosophy and Environmentalism: Recovering the Phenomenon "Nature"Chapter 31 Conclusion: Is There a Future?