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12How to Write Scripture: Words, Authority, and Politics in Thomas HobbesCritical Inquiry 20 (1): 128-159. 1993.
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9Philosophy of the Morning: Nietzsche and the Politics of TransfigurationJournal of Nietzsche Studies 39 (1): 51-65. 2010.ABSTRACT Nietzsche’s life project remains constant throughout his life: it is the project of transformation or transfiguration. He formulates this as the necessity of dealing with the way that one’s past shapes one’s present. The paradigm for this transformation is first to be found in The Birth of Tragedy, but it reappears in various guises in all of his work. I argue that Nietzsche’s writing is itself designed so as to make possible such a transformation in his readers.
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74Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of SovereigntyUniversity of Chicago Press. 1985.Written in the intense political and intellectual tumult of the early years of the Weimar Republic, Political Theology develops the distinctive theory of sovereignty that made Carl Schmitt one of the most significant and controversial ...
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40Nietzsche and the Political: Tyranny, Tragedy, Cultural Revolution, and DemocracyJournal of Nietzsche Studies 35 (1): 48-66. 2008.
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15The Tragic Ethos and the Spirit of MusicInternational Studies in Philosophy 35 (3): 79-100. 2003.
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11Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Politics of the OrdinaryRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.In this book, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein, and Heidegger. Rousseau's democratic individual is an ordinary self, paradoxically multiple and not singular. In the course of exploring this contention, Strong examines Rousseau's fear of authorship , his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics, …Read more
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34Review of Stefan elbe, Europe: A Nietzschean Perspective (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (3). 2004.
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32Glory and the Law in HobbesEuropean Journal of Political Theory 16 (1): 61-76. 2017.A central argument of the _Leviathan_ has to do with the political importance of education. Hobbes wants his book to be taught in universities and expounded much in the manner that Scripture was. Only thus will citizens realize what is in their hearts as to the nature of good political order. Glory affects this process in two ways. The pursuit of glory _by a citizen_ leads to political chaos and disorder. On the other hand, _God’s_ glory is such that one can do nothing but acquiesce to it. The H…Read more
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38Nietzche: The Ethics of an ImmoralistPhilosophical Review 106 (2): 296. 1997.Peter Berkowitz’s book is about the “moral intention that gives birth to and governs Nietzsche’s thought”. Bracing his book by an introduction and conclusion, he divides it into two parts. The first comprises individual chapters on what Berkowitz calls Nietzsche’s “histories.” These are on the ethics of history, the ethics of art, the ethics of morality and the ethics of religion.
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38Meanings and contexts: Mr Skinner's Hobbes and the English mode of political theoryInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 40 (3). 1997.No abstract
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Max Weber and the BourgeoisieIn Asher Horowitz & Terry Maley (eds.), The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment, University of Toronto Press. pp. 113--38. 1994.
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9A warning that politics has a particular validity, but that this validity is challenged by much that is characteristic of modernity. It demonstrates that humans are tempted to move away from politics, and outlines the costs and benefits of retaining the political as a realm of human activity.
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46In Defense of Rhetoric: Or How Hard It Is to Take a Writer SeriouslyPolitical Theory 41 (4): 507-532. 2013.Interpretations of Nietzsche, particularly about politics, cover an exceptionally wide range. Additionally, Nietzsche is often said to commit “rhetorical excesses.” I argue and show that Nietzsche consciously crafted his published works to allow this range of interpretations, that he did this for critical purposes, and that his so-called rhetoric is there to serve this purpose.
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16Politics Without Vision: Thinking Without a Banister in the Twentieth CenturyUniversity of Chicago Press. 2012.From 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 political thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has left us effectively “thinking without a banister.” _Politics without Vision_ takes up the thought of seven influential thinkers, each of…Read more
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33Exile and the Demos: Leo Strauss in AmericaThe European Legacy 18 (6): 715-726. 2013.This article explores the political, as opposed to the philosophical, impact of Leo Strauss’s exile in America on his thought. After a consideration of anti-Semitism and the importance Strauss attached to being a Jew, I argue that the fact that in America he no longer wrote in his Muttersprache but in English was central to his becoming a political theorist rather than a philosopher. Whereas as a philosopher he was unable to speak to the demos, as a political theorist what he needed was a group …Read more
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |