Political Philosophy Cross-Examined

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• Political societies frequently regard philosophers as potential threats to morality and religion, and those who speak for politics often demand a defe... Lees meer

Multiculturalism in Canada

Hugh Donald Forbes

• Hardcover | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• Multiculturalism is often thought to be defined by its commitment to diversity, inclusivity, sensitivity, and tolerance, but these established values ... Lees meer

Lucretius as Theorist of Political Life

J Colman

• Hardcover | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• "John Colman has presented us with a profound and scrupulously detailed inquiry into how Lucretius understood the tensions between the philosophic lif... Lees meer

On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application to France

Gustave de Beaumont, Alexis de Tocqueville

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• Provides the first complete and literal English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's On the Penitentiary System in the Uni... Lees meer

Socrates in the Cave

• Hardcover | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• This book addresses the problem of fully explaining Socrates' motives for philosophic interlocution in Plato's dialogues. Why, for instance, does Socr... Lees meer

Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s

• Hardcover | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss's astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made avail... Lees meer

Nietzsche's Culture War

Shilo Brooks

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• Provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations Challenges the view, predominant in Nietzsche scholarship today, t... Lees meer

Reorientation

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• The first comprehensive effort to examine Strauss's astonishingly wide-ranging writings of the 1930s (some of which have only recently been made avail... Lees meer

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine

Ben Holland

• Hardcover | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• 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. ... Lees meer

Socrates in the Cave

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• This book addresses the problem of fully explaining Socrates' motives for philosophic interlocution in Plato's dialogues. Why, for instance, does Socr... Lees meer

Cicero's Skepticism and His Recovery of Political Philosophy

Walter Nicgorski

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering 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... Lees meer

Xenophon the Socratic Prince

E Buzzetti

• Hardcover | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• An interpretation of Xenophon's Anabasis of Cyrus, paralleling the text to Machiavelli's The Prince, and focusing on the question: How did the Socrati... Lees meer

Political Philosophy in Gulliver's Travels

Lloyd W Robertson

• Hardcover | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• This book analyzes Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels from a political philosophy perspective. When authors have focused on politics in Swift's writi... Lees meer

Plato's Reverent City

Robert A Ballingall

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• This book offers an original interpretation of Plato's Laws and a new account of its enduring importance. Ballingall argues that the republican regime... Lees meer

Regime and Education

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• This volume is an inquiry into the history of political philosophy by way of the general theme of education. Each contributor addresses the relationsh... Lees meer

The Strauss-Krüger Correspondence

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• This book presents the first full translation of the correspondence of Leo Strauss and Gerhard Krüger, showing for each the development of key and inf... Lees meer

Plato's Reverent City

Robert A Ballingall

• Hardcover | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• This book offers an original interpretation of Plato's Laws and a new account of its enduring importance. Ballingall argues that the republican regime... Lees meer

Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau, and Jefferson

L Ward

• Hardcover | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• The book examines the intersection of two philosophical developments which define define contemporary life in the liberal democratic west, considering... Lees meer

Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss

David McIlwain

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• This book compares the thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss, bringing Oakeshott's desire for a renaissance of poetic individuality into dialog... Lees meer

Montesquieu's Political Economy

Andrew Scott Bibby

• Hardcover | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• This book contributes to the recovery of political philosophy by analyzing Montesquieu's economic thought. Engaging, eclectic, and inventive, this fre... Lees meer

The Strauss-Krüger Correspondence

• Hardcover | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• This book presents the first full translation of the correspondence of Leo Strauss and Gerhard Krüger, showing for each the development of key and inf... Lees meer

Ancient and Modern Approaches to the Problem of Relativism

Matthew K Davis

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering Political Philosophy
• 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... Lees meer

Eros and Socratic Political Philosophy

D Levy

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• 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 ... Lees meer

Rousseau's Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy

Nelson Lund

• Paperback | Engels | Recovering 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 wome... Lees meer