Gregory Bruce Smith

Between Eternities

On the Tradition of Political Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

Between Eternities deals with the future of the tradition of political philosophy. The author argues that this tradition can only progress after the postmodernist fragmentation of political philosophy has been realized as part of the grander scheme of the history of Western thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 670
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9780739120774
• ISBN-10: 0739120778
• Artikelnr.: 23440437

Autorenporträt

Gregory B. Smith is professor of political science and philosophy affiliated with the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Political Philosophy; Is There a Future Tradition?
Part 2 Modern Constructivism or Phenomenology
Chapter 3 Preface: Modernity and Its Closure
Chapter 4 The "End of History" or a Portal to the Future
Chapter 5 What is Political Philosophy: A Phenomenological Approach
Chapter 6 Cacophony of Silence: Derrida's Deconstructionism and the
Possibility of Political Philosophy
Chapter 7 Machiavelli's The Prince and the Essence of Modernity
Chapter 8 Phenomenology or Constructivism: Robert Pippin's Modernity
Part 9 Leo Strauss and the Tradition: An Engagement
Chapter 10 Preface: Remembrance and Tradition
Chapter 11 Who Was Leo Strauss?
Chapter 12 Leo Strauss and the Straussians: An Anti-Democratic Cult?
Chapter 13 Athens and Washington: Leo Strauss and the American Regime
Chapter 14 On a Possible Epicurean Garden for Philosophy
Chapter 15 On Cropsey's World: Joseph Cropsey and the Tradition of
Political Philosophy
Chapter 16 Between Platonism and Postmodernism: Plato's Emendation of
Socratism in the Trilogy
Chapter 17 Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger
Part 18 The Non-Metaphysical Plato: Second Beginnings?
Chapter 19 Preface: Plato, Platonism, and a Second Beginning
Chapter 20 Dialogue and Dialectic in Plato's Phaedo
Chapter 21 Political Philosophy and Eros: Plato's Socrates in the
Symposium
Chapter 22 Plato's Parmenides: Socratism and the Origins of Platonic
Political Philosophy
Chapter 23 Aristotle on Reason and Its Limits
Part 24 Political Philosophy After Modernity?
Chapter 25 Preface: Openings Toward the Postmodern
Chapter 26 Legitimacy, International Morality, and the Postmodern Global
Future
Chapter 27 Jerusalem and Washington: Political Philosophy and Theology
Chapter 28 Ontology, Technology, Poetry, or Mandarin Pastime?
Chapter 29 The Queen of the Sciences: Political Philosophy or Biology
Chapter 30 Political Philosophy and Environmentalism: Recovering the
Phenomenon "Nature"
Chapter 31 Conclusion: Is There a Future?