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  • Adorno, Strauss, and Antifascist Philosophy

    by Jeffrey A. Bernstein ...
    Series series SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
    Examines the complementary philosophical approaches of Theodor Adorno and Leo Strauss to the question concerning how to best understand and resist fascism.Despite the fact that Theodor Adorno and Leo Strauss evinced vastly different philosophical styles, Adorno, Strauss, and Antifascist Philosophy shows how complementary they were when it came to understanding, responding to, and inoculating their ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought

    Reading Strauss Outside the Lines

    Edited by Jeffrey A. Bernstein, Jade Larissa Schiff ...
    Series series SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
    Broadens the horizons of Strauss's thought by initiating dialogues between him and figures with whom little or no dialogue has yet occurred.Leo Strauss's readings of historical figures in the philosophical tradition have been justly well explored; however, his relation to contemporary thinkers has not enjoyed the same coverage. In Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought, an international group of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God

    Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding

    by Maura Jane Farrelly, Matthew Holbreich, Peter McNamara, Carla Mulford, Vincent Philip Muñoz, Danilo Petranovich, Eran Shalev, Aristide Tessitore, Jeffrey A. Bernstein, Robert Faulkner, Jonathan Israel ...
    Both reason and religion have been acknowledged by scholars to have had a profound impacton the foundation and formation of the American regime. But the significance, pervasiveness,and depth of that impact have also been disputed. While many have approached the Americanfounding period with an interest in the influence of Enlightenment reason or Biblical religion,they have often assumed such ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History

    by Jeffrey A. Bernstein ...
    Series series SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
    Explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history.In Leo Strauss on the Borders of Judaism, Philosophy, and History, Jeffrey A. Bernstein explores how the thought of Leo Strauss amounts to a model for thinking about the connection between philosophy, Jewish thought, and history. For Bernstein, Strauss shows ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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    “A skilled exploration” of why 6 notable 20th-century philosophers—from Martin Heidegger to Michel Foucault—succumbed to “a narcissistic embrace of totalitarian politics” (The Washington Post).European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the age. How was this possible? How could intellectuals whose ... Read more

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  • Politics without Vision

    Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

    by Tracy B. Strong ...
    "Magisterial…a frequently surprising treatment of major political thinkers."— Perspectives on PoliticsFrom Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of ... Read more

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  • Dangerous Minds

    Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right

    by Ronald Beiner ...
    Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried communism, and the result would be an end of major ideological conflicts, as liberal norms and institutions spread to every corner of the globe. With ... Read more

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  • Is God Happy?

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    by Leszek Kolakowski ...
    The late Leszek Kolakowski was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. A prominent anticommunist writer, Kolakowski was also a deeply humanistic thinker, and his meditations on society, religion, morality, and culture stand alongside his political writings as commentaries on intellectual-and everyday-life in the twentieth century.Kolakowski’s extraordinary empathy, humor ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt

    Edited by Dana Villa ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her particular interests have made her one of the most frequently cited thinkers of our time. This Companion examines the primary themes of her multi-faceted work, from her theory of totalitarianism and her controversial idea of the 'banality of evil' to her classic studies of political action and her final ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss

    Edited by Steven B. Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    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 great 'quarrel between the ancients and the moderns,' his examination of tension between Jerusalem and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Nietzsche's Great Politics

    by Hugo Drochon ...
    "A superb case of deep intellectual renewal and the most important book to have been written about [Nietzsche] in the past few years."—Gavin Jacobson, New StatesmanNietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great ... Read more

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  • Socrates and the Jews

    Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud

    by Miriam Leonard ...
    "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" Asked by the early Christian Tertullian, the question was vigorously debated in the nineteenth century. While classics dominated the intellectual life of Europe, Christianity still prevailed and conflicts raged between the religious and the secular. Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, Socrates ... Read more

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