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  • Reason’s Inquisition

    On Doubtful Ground

    by Christopher A. Colmo ...
    Reasons Inquisition: On Doubtful Ground is an exploration in the literature of political philosophy before and after Alfarabi and ranging from Thucydides to Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. These studies, most of them previously unpublished, open inquiries into theory and practice, reason and revelation, and the relation between thinkers ancient and modern. Readers may be surprised to see the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Breaking with Athens

    Alfarabi as Founder

    by Christopher A. Colmo ...
    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    In this controversial new book, Christopher A. Colmo offers a view of the 10th century Arab philosopher Alfarabi that draws attention to a previously unremarked aspect of his philosophic project. Colmo argues that as a philosopher Alfarabi felt compelled to question the philosophic tradition as deeply as he might question religious tradition, and this he did with such power and brilliance that the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Leo Strauss, The Straussians, and the Study of the American Regime

    by John A. Murley, Laurence Berns with Eva Brann, Mark Blitz, Aryeh Botwinick, Christopher A. Colmo, Kenneth Deutsch, Murray Dry, Robert Eden, Miriam Galston, Gary D. Glenn, Harry Jaffa, Charles Kesler, Carnes Lord, John A. Marini, Eugene Miller, John Murley, Susan Orr, Ralph Rossum, Gary J. Schmitt, Abram Shulsky, Gregory Bruce Smith, Ronald Terchek, Michael Zuckert, Kenneth L. Deutsch, George Anastaplo, Hadley Arkes, Larry Arnhart, Joseph Cropsey, William A. Galston, Will Morrisey, Walter Nicgorski ...
    Responding to volatile criticisms frequently leveled at Leo Strauss and those he influenced, the prominent contributors to this volume demonstrate the profound influence that Strauss and his students have exerted on American liberal democracy and contemporary political thought. By stressing the enduring vitality of classic books and by articulating the theoretical and practical flaws of relativism ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Socratic Philosophy and Its Others

    by Denise Schaeffer, Christopher Dustin, Michael Davis, Catherine H. Zuckert, Gwenda-lin Grewal, Mary P. Nichols, Christopher A. Colmo, David Corey, Matthew Dinan0, Jacob Howland1, Evanthia Speliotis2, Ronna Burger3 ...
    The overall aim of the volume is to explore the relation of Socratic philosophizing, as Plato represents it, to those activities to which it is typically opposed. The essays address a range of figures who appear in the dialogues as distinct “others” against whom Socrates is contrasted—most obviously, the figure of the sophist, but also the tragic hero, the rhetorician, the tyrant, and the poet. ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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    by Allan Bloom ...
    The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition.In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with ... Read more

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  • On Violence

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The political theorist and author of The Origins of Totalitarianism offers an "incisive, deeply probing" essay on violence and political power ( The Nation).Addressing the escalation of global warfare witnessed throughout the 1960s, Hannah Arendt points out that the glorification of violence is not restricted to a small minority of militants and extremists. The public revulsion for violence that ... Read more

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  • Crises of the Republic

    Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Four thought-provoking political essays by the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism.Taking an in-depth look at the tumult of the 1960s and '70s, one of the great political philosophers of our era examines how these crises challenged the American form of government. "Lying in Politics" is a penetrating analysis of the Pentagon Papers that deals with the role of image-making and public relations ... Read more

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  • Rediscovering Americanism

    And the Tyranny of Progressivism

    by Mark R. Levin ...
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a searing plea for a return to America’s most sacred values.In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders’ warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes that the men who created our country would be outraged and disappointed to see where we've ended up.Levin returns to ... Read more

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  • Responsibility and Judgment

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    Each of the books that Hannah Arendt published in her lifetime was unique, and to this day each continues to provoke fresh thought and interpretations. This was never more true than for Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where she first used the phrase “the banality of evil.” Her consternation over how a man who was neither a monster nor a demon could nevertheless ... Read more

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  • Man, the State, and War

    A Theoretical Analysis

    by Kenneth Waltz ...
    What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and Rousseau, and by modern psychologists and anthropologists to discover ideas intended to explain war among states and related prescriptions for ... Read more

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  • The Irony of American History

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    From the theologian President Barack Obama cites as one of his favorite philosophers, "the most important book ever written on foreign policy" (Andrew J. Bacevich, from the introduction).Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary ... Read more

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  • The Rhetoric of Reaction

    by Albert O. Hirschman ...
    With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been arguing against progressive agendas and reforms for the past two hundred years. He draws his examples from three successive waves of reactive thought that arose in response to the liberal ideas of the French ... Read more

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