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Paleoconservative Anthology
New Voices for an Old Tradition
Häftad, 2026
430 kr
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This anthology provides detailed examinations of the major themes and perspectives of the paleoconservatives as political thinkers and activists. A long forgotten and persistently disregarded group within the American Right, but their ideas show a remarkable staying power. Paleoconservatives, as …
Tradition v. Rationalism
Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others
Av Lee Trepanier, Eugene Callahan
Inbunden, 2018
1424 kr
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In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide had reached its high mark in the arts, politics, and work. But the Holocaust, the Gulag, and other failures have dimmed the popularity of rationalism. However, the evidence of those practical failures would not have been as convincing …
Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times
Av Richard Avramenko, Ethan Alexander-Davey
Inbunden, 2018
1708 kr
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Great statesmen and gentlemen, men of honor and rank, seem to be phenomena of a bygone Aristocratic era. Aristocracies, which emphasize rank, and value difference, quality, beauty, rootedness, continuity, stand in direct contrast to democracies, which value equality, autonomy, novelty, …
Plato's Mythoi
The Political Soul's Drama Beyond
Inbunden, 2018
1566 kr
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Recently, in the past thirty years, there has been an upsurge in serious treatment of Platonic mythoi, which were once thought to be only literary decoration and/or the simplistic presentation of philosophic conclusions for the demos (dummies in effect). Nevertheless, the dominant tendency in the …
Democracy and Its Enemies
The American Struggle for the Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2018
1141 kr
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America, it is often argued, emerged from the Enlightenment. It follows that the prevailing elements of politics in the United States are echoes of struggles among what is here referred to as the moderate Enlightenment, the conservative Enlightenment, and the radical Enlightenment. These lead to …
Walk Away
When the Political Left Turns Right
Av Lee Trepanier, Grant Havers
Häftad, 2021
416 kr
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This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to the political left only later to reappraise or reject them. Their reevaluation of their own previous positions reveals not only the change in their own thought but …
Eric Voegelin Today
Voegelin’s Political Thought in the 21st Century
Av Scott Robinson, Lee Trepanier m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1212 kr
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This book analyzes Eric Voegelin’s scholarly works from the 1950s and early 1960s and examines the ways in which these works are relevant to the twenty-first century political environment. The collection of essays evaluated in this book cover a wide array of topics that were of great curiosity …
Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought
Inbunden, 2020
1283 kr
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The rise of Asia in global affairs has forced western thinkers to rethink their assumptions, theories, and conclusions about the region. Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought brings together a mixture of established and rising scholars from both Asia and the West to reflect upon the political …
Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America
Av Carol McNamara, Trevor Shelley
Inbunden, 2022
1467 kr
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The purpose of this volume is to discuss the concept of citizenship—in terms of its origins, its meanings, and its contemporary place and relevance in American democracy, and within a global context. The authors in this collection wrestle with the connection of citizenship to major tensions between …
Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America
Av Carol McNamara, Trevor Shelley
Häftad, 2022
533 kr
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The purpose of this volume is to discuss the concept of citizenship—in terms of its origins, its meanings, and its contemporary place and relevance in American democracy, and within a global context. The authors in this collection wrestle with the connection of citizenship to major tensions between …
Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education
Av James Stoner, Paul Carrese m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1247 kr
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The essays in Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education reflect diverse perspectives on one of the most pressing issues in higher education--the controversies over freedom of speech and its relation to intellectual diversity. Does the First Amendment apply on campuses and do its …
Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education
Av James Stoner, Paul Carrese m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
509 kr
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The essays in Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education reflect diverse perspectives on one of the most pressing issues in higher education--the controversies over freedom of speech and its relation to intellectual diversity. Does the First Amendment apply on campuses and do its …
Rethinking Utopia
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Inbunden, 2022
1070 kr
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Rethinking Utopia is a collection that discusses utopian thinking in relation to different philosophical themes. It seeks utopianism in political theory (particularly in Kant and Derrida), populism, Turkish Islamism, international law, and it fleshes out themes of modernism and classless society in …
Character in the American Experience
An Unruly People
Av Bruce P. Frohnen, Ted V. McAllister
Inbunden, 2022
1212 kr
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What is an American? Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister argue that we are, in fact, a distinct people with our own common character that transcends race, gender, ethnicity, and class. They find in our current political conflicts a crisis of identity that stems from changes, not just in our …
Character in the American Experience
An Unruly People
Av Bruce P. Frohnen, Ted V. McAllister
Häftad, 2024
474 kr
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What is an American? Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister argue that we are, in fact, a distinct people with our own common character that transcends race, gender, ethnicity, and class. They find in our current political conflicts a crisis of identity that stems from changes, not just in our …
Memory and Political Art in Plato’s Statesman
Inbunden, 2023
1070 kr
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In Memory and the Political Art in Plato’s Statesman, Catherine Craig provides an original reading of Plato’s Statesman by bringing memory to the foreground. The dialogue itself explores various components of political memory, such as common speech, myths, and laws, and argues that these create a …
Paleoconservative Anthology
New Voices for an Old Tradition
Inbunden, 2023
1102 kr
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This anthology provides detailed examinations of the major themes and perspectives of the paleoconservatives as political thinkers and activists. A long forgotten and persistently disregarded group within the American Right, but their ideas show a remarkable staying power. Paleoconservatives, as …
Eric Voegelin on China and Universal Humanity
A Study of Voegelin’s Hermeneutic Empirical Paradigm
Av Muen Liu
Inbunden, 2023
1248 kr
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Eric Voegelin on China and Universal Humanity: A Study of Voegelin’s Hermeneutic Empirical Paradigm aims to speak to comparative political theorists, philosophers, historians, sinologists, and anyone interested in understanding our current disorders and exploring a culturally non-specific paradigm …
Renewing America’s Civic Compact
Av Carol McNamara, Trevor Shelley
Inbunden, 2023
1175 kr
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Renewing America’s Civic Compact addresses the chief challenges and principal tensions in the operation of our civil society in order to consider possible paths forward. The meritocracy, multiculturalism, issues of race, technology, and populist nationalism in American democracy today are some of …
Aristocratic Voices
Forgotten Arguments about Virtue, Authority, and Inequality
Av Richard Avramenko, Ethan Alexander-Davey
Inbunden, 2025
1481 kr
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In the 21st century, political debates appear to center on fundamental conflicts between “the people” and “elites.” Most of these discussions emphasize strategies to protect and empower the oppressed masses against a predatory ruling class. Much of classical political thought, however, was written …
Regimes of Terror and Memory
Beyond the Uniqueness of the Holocaust
Inbunden, 2023
1141 kr
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Regimes of Terror and Memory: Beyond the Uniqueness of the Holocaust illustrates how convenient it has become in r not recognizing other regimes of terror in recent history. Manfred Henningsen compares the memory of Nazi Germany’s macro criminal record with the remembrances of Stalin’s Russia and …
Personalism for the Twenty-First Century
Essays in Honor of David Walsh
Av Richard Avramenko, Thomas W. Holman
Inbunden, 2025
1254 kr
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The noted professor David Walsh has called for a new "personalist language of persons," with vast implications in a variety of academic fields. Moving away from a language that refers to persons as ‘things’, and seeks to find connections and relations within all of us. In Personalism for the …
Idolizing the Idea
A Critical History of Modern Philosophy
Inbunden, 2019
1566 kr
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Ever since Plato made the case for the primacy of ideas over names, philosophy has tended to elevate the primacy of its ideas over the more common understanding and insights that are circulated in the names drawn upon by the community. Commencing with a critique of Plato’s original philosophical …
Idolizing the Idea
A Critical History of Modern Philosophy
Häftad, 2023
517 kr
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Ever since Plato made the case for the primacy of ideas over names, philosophy has tended to elevate the primacy of its ideas over the more common understanding and insights that are circulated in the names drawn upon by the community. Commencing with a critique of Plato’s original philosophical …
Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents
Rethinking Politics in the Age of Brexit and Trump
Av Lee Ward
Häftad, 2021
517 kr
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Cosmopolitanism is one of the most venerable intellectual traditions in the history of political philosophy. From the ancient Greek Diogenes’ claim to be “a citizen of the world” through to Kant’s Enlightenment vision of a world government and even into our own time, the idea of cosmopolitanism has …
Spartan Drama of Plato’s Laws
Inbunden, 2020
1212 kr
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Friedland presents the Laws, Plato's longest dialogue, as a drama that must be interpreted with close and sustained attention to each of its three characters. He argues that Megillos, seen by most commentators as the most obtuse character in the dialogue, is in fact a man of few words but of …
Spartan Drama of Plato’s Laws
Häftad, 2022
517 kr
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Friedland presents the Laws, Plato's longest dialogue, as a drama that must be interpreted with close and sustained attention to each of its three characters. He argues that Megillos, seen by most commentators as the most obtuse character in the dialogue, is in fact a man of few words but of …
Political Philosophy of the European City
From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis?
Inbunden, 2021
1354 kr
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The Political Philosophy of the European City is a courageous and wide-ranging panorama of the political life and thought of the European city. Its novel hypothesis is that modern Western political thought, since the time of Hobbes and Locke, underestimated the political significance and value of …
Political Philosophy of the European City
From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis?
Häftad, 2023
460 kr
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The Political Philosophy of the European City is a courageous and wide-ranging panorama of the political life and thought of the European city. Its novel hypothesis is that modern Western political thought, since the time of Hobbes and Locke, underestimated the political significance and value of …
John Locke and the Uncivilized Society
Individualism and Resistance in America Today
Inbunden, 2021
1212 kr
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John Locke’s influence on American political culture has been largely misunderstood by his commentators. Though often regarded as the architect of a rationally ordered and civilized liberalism, John Locke and the Uncivilized Society demonstrates that Locke’s thought is culpable for the rather …
