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30Heidegger, the Pólis, the Political and GelassenheitJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 47 (2): 157-173. 2016.
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30Nietzsche (review)Philosophical Review 106 (2): 296-298. 1996.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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28Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Politics (edited book)University of Chicago Press. 1988._Nietzsche's New Seas_ makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines—philosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicology—and from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributors—Karsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer…Read more
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28G. A. J. Rogers & Alan Ryan . Perspectives on Thomas Hobbes. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1988. Pp. x + 209. IBSN 0-19-824998-5. £22.50 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 23 (3): 353-355. 1990.
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26David EastonPolitical Theory 26 (3): 267-280. 1998.I do not for these defects despair of our republic. R. W. Emerson, Politics
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2312 Music, Politics, Theater, and Representation in RousseauIn Patrick Riley (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau, Cambridge University Press. pp. 329. 2001.
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23Politics without vision: thinking without a banister in the twentieth centuryUniversity of Chicago Press. 2012.The world as we find it -- Kant and the death of God -- Nietzsche: the tragic ethos and the spirit of music -- Max Weber, magic, and the politics of social scientific objectivity -- "What have we to do with morals?": Nietzsche and Weber on the politics of morality -- Sigmund Freud and the heroism of knowledge -- Lenin and the calling of the party -- Carl Schmitt and the exceptional sovereign -- Martin Heidegger and the space of the political -- Without a banister: Hannah Arendt and roads not tak…Read more
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20Aesthetic authority and tradition: Nietzsche and the GreeksHistory of European Ideas 11 (1-6): 989-1007. 1989.This is an extended revision of a previous paper. It was given as a plenary paper at the History of Ideas conference in Amsterdam, September 1988. It will also appear in a revised version as Chapter II in a book on Aesthetics and Politics
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19When Is a Text Not a Pretext? A Rejoinder to Victoria SilverCritical Inquiry 20 (1): 172-178. 1993.
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17The Concept of the Political: Expanded EditionUniversity of Chicago Press. 2007.In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism’s basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state—a critique as cogent today as when it first appeared. George Schwab’s introduction to his translation of the 1932 German edition highlights Schmitt’s intellectual journey through the turbulent period of German history leading to the Hitlerian one-party state. In addition to ana…Read more
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17Book Review: Captives of Sovereignty, by Jonathan HavercroftCaptives of Sovereignty, by HavercroftJonathan. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2011 (review)Political Theory 43 (5): 687-692. 2015.
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17Tragedy, education, democracy: J. Peter Euben’s Political TheoryContemporary Political Theory 19 (2): 306-340. 2020.
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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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15The Tragic Ethos and the Spirit of MusicInternational Studies in Philosophy 35 (3): 79-100. 2003.
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12Dead Certainty: The Death Penalty and the Problem of Judgment (review)Political Theory 36 (6): 890-894. 2008.
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12How to Write Scripture: Words, Authority, and Politics in Thomas HobbesCritical Inquiry 20 (1): 128-159. 1993.
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
19th Century Philosophy |
20th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |