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On Statesmanship
Inbunden, 2026
369 kr
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What true statecraft consists of, and how to know a statesman when we see oneIn the modern world we yearn for great leaders but resist them when they come along. In this much-needed essay, Steven B. Smith tells us that a statesman is something far different from a demagogue or a technocrat; he or …
Reading Leo Strauss
Politics, Philosophy, Judaism
Häftad, 2007
222 kr
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Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, though, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high priest of neoconservatism but as a friend of …
Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Av Abraham Lincoln, Steven B. Smith
Häftad, 2012
252 kr
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Abraham Lincoln never wrote a book: his ideas are contained in speeches, letters, and various occasional writings. By bringing these works together into a single anthology, this book shows that Lincoln deserves to be counted among the great political philosophers. In addition to many examples of …
Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes
Inbunden, 2021
267 kr
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A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age “Like you perhaps, I still regard myself as an extremely patriotic person. Which is why I so admired [this book]. . . . It explained my emotion to me, as it might yours to you.”—David Brooks, New …
Hegel's Critique of Liberalism
Rights in Context
Häftad, 1991
325 kr
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In Hegel's Critique of Liberalism, Steven B. Smith examines Hegel's critique of rights-based liberalism and its relevance to contemporary political concerns. Smith argues that Hegel reformulated classic liberalism, preserving what was of value while rendering it more attentive to the dynamics of …
Reading Leo Strauss
Politics, Philosophy, Judaism
E-bok, 2007
474 kr
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Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, though, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high priest of neoconservatism but as a friend of …
Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity
Häftad, 1998
492 kr
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Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677)—often recognized as the first modern Jewish thinker—was also a founder of modern liberal political philosophy. This book is the first to connect systematically these two aspects of Spinoza's legacy. Steven B. Smith shows that Spinoza was a politically engaged theorist …
Spinoza’s Book of Life
Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics
Inbunden, 2003
847 kr
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Most readers of Spinoza treat him as a pure metaphysician, a grim determinist, or a stoic moralist, but none of these descriptions captures the author of the Ethics, argues Steven B. Smith in this intriguing book. Offering a new reading of Spinoza’s masterpiece, Smith asserts that the Ethics is a …
Political Philosophy
Häftad, 2012
271 kr
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Who ought to govern? Why should I obey the law? How should conflict be controlled? What is the proper education for a citizen and a statesman? These questions probe some of the deepest and most enduring problems that every society confronts, regardless of time and place. Today we ask the same …
Modernity and Its Discontents
Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow
Häftad, 2018
876 kr
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Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and …
The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss
Häftad, 2009
557 kr
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Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the …
The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss
Inbunden, 2009
1449 kr
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Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work. These include his revival of the …
The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin
Av Joshua L. Cherniss, Steven B. Smith
Inbunden, 2018
1432 kr
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Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was a central figure in twentieth-century political thought. This volume highlights Berlin's significance for contemporary readers, covering not only his writings on liberty and liberalism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Russian thinkers and pluralism, but also the …
Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin
Av Steven B. Smith, Joshua L. Cherniss
E-bok, 2018
424 kr
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Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a central figure in twentieth-century political thought. This volume highlights Berlin''s significance for contemporary readers, covering not only his writings on liberty and liberalism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Russian thinkers and pluralism, but also the …
Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin
Av Steven B. Smith, Joshua L. Cherniss
E-bok, 2018
424 kr
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Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a central figure in twentieth-century political thought. This volume highlights Berlin''s significance for contemporary readers, covering not only his writings on liberty and liberalism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Russian thinkers and pluralism, but also the …
Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss
E-bok, 2009
555 kr
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Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss''s work. These include his revival of the …
Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss
E-bok, 2009
555 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Leo Strauss was a central figure in the twentieth century renaissance of political philosophy. The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss''s work. These include his revival of the …
The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin
Av Joshua L. Cherniss, Steven B. Smith
Häftad, 2018
439 kr
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Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was a central figure in twentieth-century political thought. This volume highlights Berlin's significance for contemporary readers, covering not only his writings on liberty and liberalism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Russian thinkers and pluralism, but also the …
Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes
Ljudbok, 2021
253 kr
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A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age The concept of patriotism has fallen on hard times. What was once a value that united Americans has become so politicized by both the left and the right that it threatens to rip apart the social …
Meaning and Negation
E-bok, 2015
1550 kr
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Meaning and Negation
Inbunden, 1978
1644 kr
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Reading Leo Strauss
Politics, Philosophy, Judaism
Inbunden, 2006
437 kr
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Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, though, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high priest of neoconservatism but as a friend of …
Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes
Häftad, 2023
194 kr
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A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age “Like you perhaps, I still regard myself as an extremely patriotic person. Which is why I so admired [this book]. . . . It explained my emotion to me, as it might yours to you.”—David Brooks, New …
Weather and a Place to Live
Photographs of the Suburban West
Inbunden, 2005
524 kr
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In compelling, often stunning black-and-white photographs, The Weather and a Place to Live portrays the manmade landscape of the western United States. Here we come face to face with the surreal intersection of the American appetite for suburban development and the resistant, rolling, arid country …
