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  • Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes

    by Steven B. Smith ...
    A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist ageThe concept of patriotism has fallen on hard times. What was once a value that united Americans has become so politicized by both the left and the right that it threatens to rip apart the social fabric. On the right, patriotism has become synonymous with nationalism and an "us versus them" ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Political Philosophy

    by Steven B. Smith ...

    $12.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin

    Edited by Joshua L. Cherniss, Steven B. Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) was a central figure in twentieth-century political thought. This volume highlights Berlin's significance for contemporary readers, covering not only his writings on liberty and liberalism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Russian thinkers and pluralism, but also the implications of his thought for political theory, history, and the social sciences, as well as the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Modernity and Its Discontents

    Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow

    by Steven B. Smith ...
    Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project’s most powerful defenders and critics ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Early Modern Skepticism and the Origins of Toleration

    by Alan Levine, Michael Gillespie, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Alan Craig Houston, Shirley Letwin, Joshua Mitchell, Patrick Riley, Diana J. Schaub, Steven B. Smith, Nathan Tarcov, Kenneth R. Weinstein ...
    Series series Applications of Political Theory
    This collection of original essays by the nation's leading political theorists examines the origins of modernity and considers the question of tolerance as a product of early modern religious skepticism. Rather than approaching the problem through a purely historical lens, the authors actively demonstrate the significance of these issues to contemporary debates in political philosophy and public ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • 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

    $36.09 USD

  • The Writings of Abraham Lincoln

    by Abraham Lincoln ...
    Series series Rethinking the Western Tradition
    Abraham Lincoln never wrote a book: his ideas are contained in speeches, letters, and occasional writings. By bringing these works together into a single anthology, this book shows that Lincoln deserves to be counted among the great political philosophers.In addition to many examples of Lincoln’s writings, this volume includes four interpretive essays that will provide an intellectual feast for ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

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    Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes

    by Steven B. Smith ...
    Narrated by Mack Sanderson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist ageThe concept of patriotism has fallen on hard times. What was once a value that united Americans has become so politicized by both the left and the right that it threatens to rip apart the social fabric. On the right, patriotism has become synonymous with nationalism and an “us versus them” ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    On Statesmanship

    by Steven B. Smith ...
    Narrated by Tom Beyer ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 30 min

    What true statecraft consists of, and how to know a statesman when we see oneIn the modern world we yearn for great leaders but resist them when they come along. In this much-needed essay, Steven B. Smith tells us that a statesman is something far different from a demagogue or a technocrat; he or she incorporates many qualities of leadership―persuasiveness, courage, foresight, judgment―to take ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    And Why it Still Matters

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    This book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition ... Read more

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  • Sovereignty

    God, State, and Self

    by Jean Bethke Elshtain ...
    Throughout the history of human intellectual endeavor, sovereignty has cut across the diverse realms of theology, political thought, and psychology. From earliest Christian worship to the revolutionary ideas of Thomas Jefferson and Karl Marx, the debates about sovereignty -- complete independence and self-government -- have dominated our history.In this seminal work of political history and ... Read more

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  • Civil Religion

    A Dialogue in the History of Political Philosophy

    by Ronald Beiner ...
    Civil Religion offers philosophical commentaries on more than twenty thinkers stretching from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. It examines four important traditions within the history of modern political philosophy. The civil religion tradition, principally defined by Machiavelli, Hobbes and Rousseau, seeks to domesticate religion by putting it solidly in the service of politics. The ... Read more

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