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University of Notre Dame Press Religion and the Rise of Modern Culture
Book SynopsisThis book describes and analyzes changing attitudes toward religion during three stages of modern European culture: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic period.Trade Review“This beautifully crafted essay by Louis Dupré makes an original contribution to our understanding of the emergence and development of modernity, which dispensing with religion as a governing discourse and form of life, nonetheless attempts to find a place for it in a world sufficiently depleted of meaning and value as to require reenchantment. It supplements Dupré’s two magisterial texts on the topic of the modernity covering the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, and whets the appetite for the forthcoming volume on Romanticism. Deep learning is worn lightly in this marvelously readable book.” —Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame“A stunning synthesis of Dupré's magisterial intellectual history of modernity and his distinctive and important philosophy of religion.” —David Tracy, emeritus, The University of Chicago Divinity School“Louis Dupre's literate and sweeping review of the fate of religious faith in modern culture will help contemporary readers, who share his closing yearning for ways in which ‘transcendence can be recognized again,’ to appreciate why many of us find a postmodern climate—for better or worse—more conducive to fulfilling that desire. For his dramatic depictions of modernity teach us how different is the culture in which we now live.” —David Burrell, CSC, Hesburgh Professor Emeritus in Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame“The title of this book, broad as it is, aptly describes it. As the author puts it, for over a millenium Western culture was the culture of Christianity. But gradually, beginning in the Middle Ages, culture and religion ‘assumed a certain independence vis-a-vis each other’ and with the Enlightenment this turned to opposition. In the lectures which constitute this book, the author traces this development.” —Catholic Library World“This wonderful little book, drawn from Louis Dupré’s 2005–2006 Erasmus Lectures at the University of Notre Dame, narrates the development of modern culture from its roots in early Christian encounters with Aristotelianism, through the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the rise of modern atheism, and on to the poetry, philosophy, and theology of the German Romantics. . . . Dupré argues that the weakening of the ‘Christian synthesis’—and the subsequent decline of religion into subsidiary roles in public and academic life—began with a series of intellectual shifts that can be traced to Christianity’s earliest days.” —Commonweal“This book, based on the Erasmus lectures [Dupré] delivered at the University of Notre Dame in 2005, describes and analyzes changing attitudes towards religion during three stages of modern European culture: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic Period.” —Theology Digest“The writing is measured, lucid and graceful, and the breadth of scholarship and the easy and comprehensive familiarity of the author with his material is inspiring. Dupré here distills key themes in his thinking on religion, modernity and culture into a single slim volume, making this a useful introduction to his writings at a modest price.” —Theology“Dupré’s splendid new book traces the unraveling of the ontotheological synthesis of medieval Christendom through the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and German Romanticism. . . . With magisterial lucidity Dupré explores the fragmentation of the medieval symbolic world culminating in the apotheosis of the self-constituting subject.” —Theological Studies“Louis Dupré’s reflections on the development of history towards modernity are a model of careful scholarship and insight. His short book is a distillation and refinement of many years of careful research and serious writing on questions of the philosophy of religion and cultural history. . . . Dupré gives us a comprehensive, serene, and learned discussion of a variety of themes which can only deepen and enrich our understanding of the large complex of questions connected with the themes of modernity, culture, and religion.” —The Thomist“His focus is on the German Romantic poets and playwrights (Goethe, Schiller and Holderlin), the German Idealist Schelling with the linkage of Greek mythology and biblical revelation in his late period, and the emphasis on feeling and individual subjectivity in the theology of Schleiermacher and the philosophy of Kierkegaard.” —HorizonsTable of ContentsForeword by Peter Casarella 1. Philosophy and Faith Part 1. Farewell to a Symbolic World 2. The Modern Idea of Culture and Its Opposition to Its Classical and Medieval Origins 3. The Fragmentation of the Symbolic World 4. The Sources of Modern Atheism Part 2. Philosophical Reinterpretations of Theology 5. Hegel’s Spirit and the Idea of God as Spirit 6. Philosophical Reflections on the Mystery of Creation 7. Evil and the Limits of Theodicy 8. Intimations of Immortality Part 3. Phenomenology: Philosophy Reopens its Doors to Mystery 9. Phenomenology of Religion: Limits and Possibilities 10. Phenomenology and Religious Truth 11. The Enigma of Religious Art 12. Ritual: The Sacralization of Time Part 4. Mysticism: The Silence of Faith 13. Is a Natural Desire of God Possible? 14. Mysticism and Philosophy 15. Justifying the Mystical Experience
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University of Notre Dame Press Language of Dissent Edward Schillebeeckx on the Crisis of Authority in the Catholic Church
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham
Book SynopsisThis book makes available for the first time an English translation of William Ockham's work on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, which contains his theory of scientific demonstration and philosophy of science.Trade Review“Longeway's claims are well-considered, and Ockham's influence on early modern philosophy is never far from his mind. His careful translation, compilation of relevant documents, and impressive history of medieval empiricism should interest any scholar studying the history of philosophy of science.” —Journal of the History of Philosophy“Longeway provides not only a very accessible translation but also extensive commentary of his own, including a book-length detailed history of the intellectual contexts of Ockham's Latin Middle Ages. . . . The result is an effective translation of Ockham's seminal work but also what may become a foundational text in intellectual and science history.” —Research Book News“The present work is the result of decades of study of Ockham's philosophy of science. The translation and commentary are introduced by a chapter in which Longeway presents an overview of Ockham's thought in this area and highlights its philosophical significance. This introduction is in its own right a significant contribution to the history of philosophy.” —Owen Goldin, Marquette University“Like much else in medieval philosophy, medieval theories of demonstrative knowledge are historically important, philosophically interesting, and little understood. There are a few extensive studies into medieval discussions of demonstration and even fewer translations of these important discussions. Longeway's translation of Ockham in Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham is among the few English translations of medieval commentaries on posterior analytics we have and in this way is an important contribution to the field. Longeway's lengthy introductory survey both introduces readers to the development of medieval discussion of Posterior analytics prior to Ockham and situates (historically and philosophically) Ockham's discussion within that development. These translations will be of value to scholars working on a variety of areas on Ockham's thought as well as to scholars interested more generally in medieval theories of demonstration, science, and epistemology.” —Susan Brower-Toland, Saint Louis University
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Memory and History In Christianity andJudaism
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Weaving the World Simone Weil on Science
Book SynopsisAn overview of Simone Weil's writings on science and mathematics which opens the door to dialogue between philosophy, art, and religionTrade Review"For its rigor, as well as for its faithful reading of Simone Weil's work, this book merits special attention. Starting with a well-defined aspect of Weil's thought, the author shows the unity of this thought, unified through its relationship, from one end to the other, with the Good." —Cahiers Simone Weil"Weaving the World is a detailed account of the philosophy of science and knowledge of Simone Weil. It is a very useful contribution to our understanding of one of the deepest and most incandescent thinkers of the twentieth century." —Martin Andic, University of Massachusetts, Boston"Weaving the World is a well-written and lucid overview of Simone Weil's writings on science and mathematics. This book will be of great benefit for anyone who wishes to pursue Weil's thought in depth." —Eric O. Springsted, President of the American Weil Society
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press No Messages
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours Walt Whitman
Book SynopsisIn this poetry collection, Jude Nutter challenges Whitman’s statements about war and animals by exploring her own responses to both. Trade Review“In poem after poem, Jude Nutter bridges the gap between past and present, loss and reclamation, and does so in expansive, passionate lyrics full of clarity, imagination, and sureness of vision. She is, quite simply, one of the finest poets writing in America today. This is a powerful, poignant volume, each poem ‘a gesture of welcome’ that brings us home to the great healing powers of our language.” —Robert Hedin, author of The Old Liberators: New and Selected Poems and Translations and editor of the Great River Review“Driven, almost tormented, by her sense of historical events, by what war accomplishes and destroys, Jude Nutter does the poet’s work of resurrection—she mourns and makes real with language some of the enormous losses suffered, and with her exceptional gifts brings some of the lost back to life to be thought of, considered, and remembered by her readers. It matters when such an accomplished poet insists we pay attention and then shows us what to attend to in this extraordinary new collection of poems.” —Deborah Keenan, author of Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems“The poems in Jude Nutter's I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman consistently and beautifully re-imagine the poem of meditation on the atrocities of war. Nutter invokes, invites and revises Whitman's civil war poems through thoroughly contemporary and female perspectives. These poems haunt and inspire with a lush expansiveness that slams that old mind/body gap quite closed.” —Leslie Adrienne Miller, author of The Resurrection Trade"National and international award-winning poet Jude Nutter presents . . . an anthology of free-verse poetry that examines the tragedies of war and conflict. Nutter takes a different view of such things than the legendary poet Walt Whitman; her verse sings with a heavy heart as she disagrees with him, drawing upon the suffering that has taken place in Rwanda, Sarajevo, Nagasaki, and both world wars." —The Midwest Book Review“Rarely do I come across a book of poems that reads as though it had to be written. When I do, I’m reminded why I read poems in the first place. We’re after magic and to be in the presence of some great alchemy: poets working in a language so vivid that when read aloud it seems both alien and our own, both the first time spoken and to come from somewhere within us. This is the language with which Jude Nutter works. In her third collection, “I Wish I Had a Heart Like Yours, Walt Whitman,” this Minnesota Book Award-winning poet illuminates the importance and difficulty of bearing witness.” —The Minneapolis Star Tribune
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Revenge of Underwater Man and Other Stories
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn
Book SynopsisPhilosophers of all sorts will be richly rewarded by reading John O’Callaghan’s new book, Thomistic Realism and the Linguistic Turn. Based on his broad knowledge of Aristotle and Aquinas, O’Callaghan provides not only an excellent treatment of Aquinas’s epistemology but also a superb demonstration of just how Aquinas might contribute to contemporary debates.Trade Review"This is a magnificent tour de force that engages head-on the attacks upon (and defence of) mental representationalism as the dominant epistemology of the modern period. . . this work constitutes the closest approximation currently available to a definitive 'map of the territory' of Anglo-American analytic epistemology, its fatal affiliation to the Cartesian theory of ideas, and a most persuasive argument for the distinctness of the Aristotelian-Thomist approach. . . splendid achievement. . ." —The Heythrop Journal". . . an important and useful book. . . the book renders a valuable service from Thomistic resources to contemporary thinkers struggling with the perennial problems of realism. . ." —Theological Studies". . . a helpful survey of claims and arguments, as well as the presentation of a certain approach to an interconnected set of problems." —The Philosophical Quarterly“O’Callaghan offers an interpretation of Aquinas that is simultaneously traditional and innovative. [This] book undertakes a worthy effort to revitalize the traditional interpretation of Aquinas’s theory of cognition so that it can engage the contemporary debate about the relationship of language and thought to the world. His argument is timely. . . and it makes an important contribution to the field.” —The Thomist“. . . this remarkable book will enlighten and delight all who are interested in the questions and the authors with whom it deals.” —Pro Ecclesia"O'Callaghan writes as a passionate, penetrating, and faithful reader of St. Thomas. Thomists will have no difficulty recognizing the basic theses, but they will profit by following the careful development of these theses in dialogue with a number of contemporary philosophers." —Review of Metaphysics
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Longleaf - Univ of Notre Dame Du Lac Toward an Alternative Theology Confessions of a NonDualist Christian
Book SynopsisThe spiritual and intellectual autobiography of a Roman Catholic Scottish nun who established herself as one of the leading 20th century figures in Indian Christian theology and the contemplative life. She recounts her search not only for God, but for a right understanding of God.Trade Review“This was a woman of great intellectual energy: it shines through her prose.... She consistently resists what she calls simplistic and piecemeal solutions to difficult questions, such as how to do interreligious prayer and worship and what to say about universalism’s possible truth, and she consistently presses the importance of hard intellectual work. All this should be applauded, as should the prose in which she writes, which in its lucidity, understatement, and elegance is a monument to the now almost defunct educational system that formed her.” —First Things“There have not been as many people like Sara Grant who have studied and practised deeply in two spiritual traditions which have grown up without any reference to or need of one another over millenia. Her way of dealing with the problem, and indeed, her whole manner of approach to Ultimate Truth deserves respect.” —Journal of Contemporary Religion“Toward an Alternative Theology presents the technical arguments of the compatibility of Christian theology in general and Thomistic in particular with Advaita non-dualism in easily accessible terms.” —Religious Studies Review“This slim volume is a readily accessible introduction to the thought and work of this remarkable philosopher, theologian, and pastoral leader. ...Grant’s work stands out as one of the most compact, accessible and vivid resources currently available for exploring the profound questions raised by interreligious dialogue and practice. It amply recommends itself for general readers, for the undergraduate or seminary classroom, and perhaps expecially for adult education programs in the parish.” —New Theology Review“This is a spiritual journey, reminding one of Augustine, Merton, or Hammarskjold . . . a perfect blend of spirituality, classical Christian and Hindu philosophy, and what contemporary theology could be.” —William Cenkner, Katharine Drexel Professor of Religion, The Catholic University of America“Sara Grant bent her mind and heart to the theology of Sankara, whom she compares in an amazingly astute way to Thomas Aquinas in this book. Toward an Alternative Theology provides a readable and penetrating theological synthesis carried out in an interfaith atmosphere . . . it serves a great purpose to the community of philosophical theology.” —David Burrell, C.S.C., Theodore Hesburgh Professor in Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Beyond the Inquisition
Book Synopsis Through an intellectual biography of Ambrogio Catarino Politi, Caravale offers a fresh perspective on Italian religious history and the Counter-Reformation during the Renaissance.Trade Review“The Counter-Reformation narrative for the Council of Trent was marked by near unanimity among the fathers in opposing Protestant Reformers. In fact, there were many vigorous anti-Protestants who espoused a less chauvinistic stance. Ambrogio Catarino Politi (1484-1533) proved to be such a person. At the Council of Trent, Politi participated in the discussions on predestination and original sin, always orthodox, but different. The book is meticulously documented.” —Choice“[Politi] emerges from Caravale’s book as an open-minded theologian, well aware of the shortcomings of philosophical reflection and his scholastic masters, and willing to base Catholic theology on a more biblical and patristic footing.” —The Regensburg Forum: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Augustinian Tradition"Caravale does not dismiss the scholarship on the Counter-Reformation; nor does he deny that Catarino was a strong anti-Lutheran. Rather, he brilliantly gives the readers a different perspective on how to understand Catarino as a multifaceted character who played an important role in assisting the Catholic Church’s efforts to stop the spread of Protestantism." —Renaissance and Reformation "Caravale’s book remains an indispensable study, a decade after its first publication, amid a revival of interest in the formative years of the Counter-Reformation." —Wietse de Boer, Journal of Modern History"This is an excellent and very well documented book. Indeed, nearly half of it is given to endnotes that provide copious quotes from Politi's works and citations from the voluminous secondary scholarship on this critical period of Italian religious history." —Paul F. Grendler, Church History“More than just a biography, Beyond the Inquisition offers readers a unique interpretation of the tumultuous sixteenth century in Europe brought about by the Reformation and leading to the Counter-Reformation. Through close examination of the intellectual life of Politi, Caravale provides more than just a story of a man and the historical context of his ideation, but also a brilliant narrative of the relationships among prominent Catholic theologians during a time of religious upheaval and change.” —Sixteenth Century Journal"Giorgio Caravale's Beyond the Inquisition: Ambrogio Catarino Politi and the Origins of the Counter-Reformation gives an extraordinarily good idea of Ambrogio Catarino as a man and as a thinker. Catarino has often been regarded as the voice of orthodoxy, but Caravale presents a man who is infinitely more complex, full of contradictions and apparent inconsistencies that illustrate the various tensions created by the Reformation." —Alastair Hamilton, Arcadian Visiting Research Professor, The Warburg Institute"It could have been so different. As Giorgio Caravale shows in his elegant study of the pontifical theologian and bishop Ambrogio Catarino Politi, the Inquisition and doctrinal rigidity need not have captured the Counter-Reformation. Caravale lays open the paradoxical career of a highly original thinker who offered a new orthodoxy that was far more open to diversity than the intransigents who won the day. Caravale’s engaging book puts paid to the historical categories that have dominated how we have understood the Reformation." —Edward Muir, Clarence L. Ver Steeg Professor in the Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University"This is now the definitive study, an expansion and revision of the 2007 Italian monograph, of a figure, Lancellotto Politi, known religiously as Ambrogio Catarino, who played an important role in the theological struggles of the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century. Always considered one of the great Roman controversialist writers against Lutheran currents, the present work shows him in the thick of internal debates within his own Dominican Order, the Council of Trent, and over the enduring Savonarolan legacy, among other issues that agitated papal Rome at the time. The deft translation into English is from the hand of Donald Weinstein, one of our great Renaissance scholars, who sadly passed away before he could see appear in print what must be his last major contribution." —John Tedeschi, co-editor of Dizionario Storico dell'Inquisizione
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University of Notre Dame Press I Want You to Be
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tomáš Halík recovers the old insight of the church fathers that faith should be seen as a journey rather than a fixed dwelling. His meditation on this is full of fresh insights that renew old truths and help us make surprising, biblical sense of our bafflement before the existential issues of faith. This is a book for our age." —Charles Taylor, emeritus, McGill University"Seldom have I read a book that prompted me to think about the mystery of God's love in such surprising and delightful new ways. By turns profound, challenging, and unsettling, Tomáš Halík's new book is also a rarity in theological and spiritual discourse in that it is beautifully written, clearly articulated, and wonderfully inviting." —James Martin, S.J., author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage"In this luminous book, Tomáš Halík embodies St. Paul’s description of love—as patient, as kind, as bearing and enduring all things—in providing wise and gentle accompaniment to all those, believers and nonbelievers alike, who are seekers of transcendence in our perplexing times. In his exploration of the meaning of love of God and love of one’s enemy, he mines insights not only from familiar figures such as Eckhart, Kierkegaard, and Levinas, but from surprising sources including Feuerbach, Marx, and Nietzsche. I Want You to Be adds to a body of work in which Halík has responded to Charles Taylor’s historical-sociological-philosophical analysis of our 'secular age' with his own penetrating theological, spiritual, and psychological diagnosis of the conditions of post-secularity." —William A. Barbieri, Catholic University of America“Tomáš Halík is building a broad community of readers in Europe, between various religions, disciplines, cultures, and nations. He writes at a level higher than our best spiritual writers but does not write as an academic theologian despite the fact that he knows that kind of literature well. Halík's message of religious tolerance and understanding, against the background of European secularization, reflects a new voice for an American audience.” —Richard Rohr, O.F.M., Center for Action and Contemplation“I think of Tomáš Halík as I think of C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, and Henri Nouwen—a rare combination of intellect along with an uncommon commitment never to betray the gene that unites us all as children of God.” —Doris Donnelly, John Carroll University"Fluently translated by Gerald Turner, Halík's book is a masterfully written meditation on love, the God of love, and the implications that the love of God has for the Christian life. Eschewing easy or simplistic answers to the questions it poses, it seeks to shake believers from complacency and to instill in them an attitude of greater openness to the world and to the God who is its ground of being." —Catholic Library World"A one-time member of the Czech underground and advisor to Václav Havel, Halík explores the theological understandings of love, grounding his discussion in scholarship yet writing in a style that is accessible to nonspecialists. . . . With this important book Halík joins the conversation taken up by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age and Martha Nussbaum in Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice. In addition to exploring the concept of love, Halík weaves important autobiographical elements that add personal depth to the conversation." —Choice"In reading this fine book, I have come to see [Halík] as a theologian for Friends (Quakers). . . . I Want You to Be is all about love—not the love of adolescent infatuation or romantic fiction, not the love of the narcissist, nor the love of possessions or their acquisition—the deep love in which the ego is transcended and we come into the power that unites without destroying or appropriating. . . . Halík carries the reader gently and surely through reflections and meditations toward this end, yielding no final answers (as he warns in the first chapter) but only an “interim report” of his own journey. It is well worth accompanying him." —Friends Journal"Seeking to apply his understanding of love in beneficial ways for our culture, Halík offers a diagnosis of our times throughout this book, rather than in a designated section. Echoing Teilhard de Chardin’s assertion that love alone can unify all without destruction, Halík sees the need for a fundamental, unifying spiritual vision in the West, particularly in Europe." —Reading Religion"What we have here is not so much prayer but what I have experienced as a profound, beautifully expressed, and translated propaedeutic to prayer. For, in my prayerful reading of it . . . I found it to be an extraordinarily 'pure'/unadulerated example of theologia secunda as, e.g., distinguished from theologia prima." —Worship
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Penn State University Selections from Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit
Book Synopsis"Phenomenology of Spirit" was Hegel's first major work. Here, translations of sections are provided, accompanied by summaries of the parts not translated so as to provide the reader with a sense of the whole. The sections include the introduction and the master-slave dialect.Trade Review“Howard Kainz has made a very sensible selection from the text of Hegel's Phenomenology. His book will serve well as an introduction to Hegel for students. It will be found useful in courses on the history of modern philosophy generally, or courses on the nineteenth century (as well as in more specialized courses on German Idealism).”—H. S. Harris,York University
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Penn State University The Logic of Historical Explanation Science and
Book SynopsisThis text provides a key to understanding the role of covering laws in historical explanation by distinguishing between their use at the macro- and micro-levels. It illustrates that "covering laws" are indispensable in connecting the steps in an explanatory narrative.Trade Review“In an era when some historians tell us that the truth about history is that history does not tell the truth, it is refreshing to find a book such as this, which boldly asserts that history not only tells the truth but explains past events causally.”—American Historical Review“This is a splendid book, worthy of a very close reading by anyone interested in the issues and arguments that dominated the discussion of history by Anglo-American philosophers, especially in the sixties and seventies.”—William H. Dray International Studies in Philosophy
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Pennsylvania State University Press Theories of Tyranny From Plato to Arendt Latin
Book SynopsisThis text provides a survey of the way that prominent thinkers (ranging from Plato, Aristotle and Tacitus to Tocqueville, Max Weber and Hannah Arendt) have discussed the problem of tyrannical government from ancient Greece to the mid-20th century.Trade Review“A great achievement in the scholarship of political philosophy. Anyone who wants to think deeply about the meaning of tyranny must read it.”—American Political Science Review (APSR)“Lucid in its analysis and accessible in style, Boesche’s book will prove to be a wonderful companion piece for students looking for a fresh interpretive angle on the classic texts of political philosophy.”—Review of Metaphysics“This book is an unexpected pleasure. Unexpected, because the topic of tyranny might seem antiquated, dark, and plain uninviting. But the subject becomes perversely fascinating under Roger Boesche’s pen. Written in steady, jargon-free prose, Theories of Tyranny holds the reader’s attention and sustains one’s interest over the course of almost 500 pages. . . . Each well-researched chapter contains insightful gems. . . . The strength of the book—I would even say the marvel of the book—is that Boesche truly identifies or at least creatively redescribes an entire subterranean ‘tradition’ of discourse in the European canon just at the time when that form of theorizing was thought to be exhausted or discredited.”—Political Theory“[Boesche’s] treatment of such different authors as Tacitus, Tocqueville, and Freud is clever, elegant, and never perfunctory; his final definition of tyranny as ‘the form of government that least meets human needs’ is both correct and attractive, for it reminds us that tyranny is not only the symbol of political evil but also an actual form of government that too many people have experienced.”—Booklist“Always clear and concise. . . . original. . . . provocative.”—American Historical Review“This book is not only a significant historical and analytical study of the idea and concept of tyranny—a project that is in itself unique and distinctive—but a sensitive and creative rendering of the classic texts that are discussed as well as of the work of twentieth-century theorists such as Arendt.”—John Gunnell,SUNY at Albany“This is a very useful volume on an important, but neglected, topic. Boesche skillfully reconstructs the rich tradition of reflection on tyranny in Western political thought.”—Bernard Yack,University of WisconsinTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Plato: The Political Psychology of Tyranny2. Aristotle: Tyranny as Unnatural3. Tacitus: Tyranny as a Politics of Pretense4. Machiavelli: Defeating Princely Tyrannies5. Montesquieu’s Two Theories of Despotism: Fearing Monarchs and Merchants6. Tocqueville: The Pleasures of Servitude7. Marx: Despotism of Class and Workplace8. Freud: The Reproduction of Tyranny9. Weber: The Inevitability of Bureaucratic Domination10. Fromm, Neumann, and Arendt: Three Early Interpretations of Nazi GermanyConclusion: Thinking About TyrannyAfterwordIndex
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Pennsylvania State University Press Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel
Book SynopsisThis anthology examines the work of Hegel from diverse critical perspectives. The essays gathered together here focus on gender issues found in his philosophy, including the passages on woman and and the feminine, which feature prominently in his work.
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Penn State University Liberty Property and Privacy
Book SynopsisA review of the evolution of due-process jurisprudence in the United States. The book examines the fundamental-rights philosophy and jurisprudence that affords constitutional protection to unenumerated liberty, property and privacy rights.Trade Review“Anyone interested in constitutional history or the modern debates on privacy or the role of the judiciary will want to read this book.”—Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science“Keynes illuminates a central and fundamental concept of American constitutionalism: the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. His analysis yields a deeper understanding of due process, both procedural and substantive, and offers sound guidance for a better methodology from the courts.”—Louis Fisher,Author of American Constitutional Law
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Penn State University Whats Hecuba to Him Fictional Events and Actual Emotions Literature and Philosophy
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