Télécharger le livre :  Regime and Education

This volume is an inquiry into the history of political philosophy by way of the general theme of education. Each contributor addresses the relationship between a particular political philosopher’s broad teaching on the best political order and that political...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-09-14
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Ancient and Modern Approaches to the Problem of Relativism

Relativism, or the claim that it is possible that the appearances and opinions of each of us are correct for each of us, and hence that any view is as true as any other, has remained a continuing problem for philosophy and science for 2,500 years. Today, because of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-05-19
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Political Philosophy in Gulliver's Travels

This book analyzes Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels from a political philosophy perspective. When authors have focused on politics in Swift’s writings, this has usually meant a study of how Swift located himself on issues of his day such as church and state, and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-07-01
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Multiculturalism in Canada

Multiculturalism is often thought to be defined by its commitment to diversity, inclusivity, sensitivity, and tolerance, but these established values sometimes require contrary practices of homogenization, exclusion, insensitivity, and intolerance.Multiculturalism in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-10-12
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the analogy between the self and political society in the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo. This analogy is an important theme in the history of political thought. Attempts have been made to understand the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-07-30
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss

This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott’s desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialogue with Strauss’s recovery of the universality of philosophical enlightenment. Starting from the conventional...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-03-14
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  On the Penitentiary System in the United States and its Application to France

This book provides  the first complete, literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville’s and Gustave de Beaumont’s first edition of On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France.  The work contains a critical comparison of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-21
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Socrates in the Cave

This book addresses the problem of fully explaining Socrates’ motives for philosophic interlocution in Plato’s dialogues. Why, for instance, does Socrates talk to many philosophically immature and seemingly incapable interlocutors? Are his motives in these cases moral,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-05-17
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  The Strauss-Krüger Correspondence

This book presents the first full translation of the correspondence of Leo Strauss and Gerhard Krüger, showing for each the development of key and influential ideas, along with seven interpretative essays by leading Strauss scholars. During the early to mid-1930’s, Leo...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-25
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Tocqueville's Moderate Penal Reform

This book presents an interpretive analysis of the major themes and purpose of Alexis de Tocqueville’s and Gustave de Beaumont’s first work, On the Penitentiary System, thereby offering new insights into Tocqueville as a moderate liberal statesman. The book explores...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-04-10
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Nietzsche's Culture War

This book is the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations. It argues that the four Meditations—which Nietzsche said “deserve the greatest attention for my development”—are not separate pieces, but instead form a unified philosophic...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-03
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Rousseau's Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy

This book reads Jean-Jacques Rousseau with a view toward deepening our understanding of many political issues alive today, including the place of women in society, the viability of traditional family structures, the role of religion and religious freedom in nations that...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-09-17
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Cicero's Skepticism and His Recovery of Political Philosophy

This book explores Cicero’s moral and political philosophy with great attention to his life and thought as a whole. The author “thinks through” Cicero with a close reading of his most important philosophical writings.  Nicgorski often resolves apparent tensions in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-08-11
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Prudential Public Leadership

This book recovers Aristotle's understanding of the roles of rhetoric and prudence in public leadership, comparing it to the other major political theories of leadership: utilitarianism, as advocated by J.S. Mill, and duty-ethics, as advocated by Immanuel Kant.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-06-16
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau, and Jefferson

The book examines the intersection of two philosophical developments which define define contemporary life in the liberal democratic west, considering how democracy has become the only legitimate and publicly defensible regime, while also considering how modern...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-04
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s

The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss's astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made available to English-speaking readers, including several herein) with a view to their unifying theme of recovering classical...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-09
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Xenophon the Socratic Prince

An interpretation of Xenophon's Anabasis of Cyrus, paralleling the text to Machiavelli's The Prince, and focusing on the question: How did the Socratic education help Xenophon reconcile morality with effectiveness, the noble with the good, as a ruler?
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-05-21
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Eros and Socratic Political Philosophy

Eros and Socratic Political Philosophy offers a new account of Plato's view of eros, or romantic love, by focusing on a question which has vexed many scholars: why does Plato's Socrates praise eros highly on some occasions but also criticize it harshly on others?...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-07-24
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Political Philosophy Cross-Examined

Political societies frequently regard philosophers as potential threats to morality and religion, and those who speak for politics often demand a defense of philosophy. This book will address philosophy as a mode of existence put into question.
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-04-10
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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Télécharger le livre :  Shakespeare's Political Wisdom

Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-04-03
Collection : Recovering Political Philosophy
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