{"product_id":"in-search-of-humanity-9780739184165","title":"In Search of Humanity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, brings together internationally renowned scholars to provide a wide context and discuss various aspects of the virtue of “humanity” through the history of political philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is uncommon to encounter a Festschrift honoring a scholar who has authored only one book—albeit an outstanding one—even when his work also includes numerous important scholarly articles on various topics. The diverse and generally excellent contributions to the present substantial volume make clear why Clifford Orwin is an exception to that rule. . . . The contributions to this volume attest to a life, and career, well lived. * Interpretation *\u003cbr\u003eThe 32 essays collected in this festschrift bear witness, as well as any single volume could, to the accomplishments of the extraordinary man they honor. Here friends, colleagues, and students make plain the astonishing breadth and depth of Clifford Orwin's philosophic concerns as a scholar and writer. What may be more, they begin to do justice to his lasting influence as a teacher, a teacher at once brilliant, demanding, and generous. -- Robert C. Bartlett, Behrakis Professor of Hellenic Political Thought, Boston College\u003cbr\u003eThis collection in honor of Clifford Orwin offers us a rich group of very intelligent essays by his students and colleagues on important issues of classical and modern thought. The essays center on and illuminate the works of Thucydides and the theme of humanity that have guided Professor Orwin’s outstanding scholarship. -- Mark Blitz, Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College\u003cbr\u003eThese 32 chapters, contributed by some of leading students of political philosophy of our time, constitute an unmatched comprehensive and penetrating introduction to the whole of human experience in the West from Thucydides to Mother Teresa. They are abundant testimony to the pedagogical excellence of Clifford Orwin, quite the formidable scholar and astute Canadian public intellectual whose influence for the good has ranged far and wide. -- Peter Augustine Lawler, Berry College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Ancient Inquiries into Humanity 1. Civilization and the Gods in the Eumenides \tBy Mark J. Lutz 2. Philosophy and “Humanity”: Reflections on Thucydidean Piety, Justice, and Necessity \tBy Ryan Balot 3. Preliminary Observations on the Treaties in Thucydides’ Work \tBy Robert Howse and Noah Laurence 4. Reflections on the Humanity (and Inhumanity) of Thucydides \tBy S. N. Jaffe 5. The Spartan Alcibiades: Brasidas and the Prospect of Regime Change in Sparta in Thucydides’ War \tBy Michael Palmer 6. The Tragedy of Demosthenes in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War \tBy Andrea Radasanu 7. Moral Indignation, Magnanimity, and Philosophy in the Trial of the Armenian King  \tBy Lorraine Smith Pangle 8.  Humanity and Divinity in Xenophon’s Defense of Socrates \tBy Thomas L. Pangle 9. Education after Freedom \tBy Michael S. Kochin  II. The Taming of Mother Teresa: From Charity to Modern Visions of Humanity  10. Martin Luther King, Augustine, and Civil Disobedience \tBy Timothy W. Burns 11. “La Carità Propria” and the Uncertain Foundations of Unarmed Principalities  \tBy William B. Parsons Jr. 12. Machiavelli’s Humanity \tBy Nathan Tarcov 13. “Choice of Loss”: The Revaluation of Roman Values in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra \tBy Paul A. Cantor 14. “When Vice Makes Mercy”: Classical, Christian, and Modern Humanism in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure” \tBy L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. 15. “Tis charity to show”: Shakespeare’s Kindly Art in The Taming of the Shrew \tBy Diana J. Schaub 16. New Virtues for Masters of Nature \tBy Henry Higuera 17. The Model of Human Nature and the Revision of Premises in Spinoza’s Ethics \tBy Richard Velkley 18. Interpreting Honor Politically \tBy Ran Halévi  III. Compassion and the Angst of Late Modernity  19. Locke’s Compassion—and Rousseau’s \tBy Steven Forde 20. Rousseau’s Rome: How the Model of All Free Peoples Governed Themselves \tBy Bryan-Paul Frost 21. Rousseau and the Case for and against Cosmopolitan Humanitarianism \tBy Christopher Kelly 22. Hegel as Educator: Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit as a Pedagogical Classic \tBy Waller R. Newell 23. Reason, Will, and the Image of Humanity: The Criticism of Rationalism by Dostoevsky’s Underground Man and Nietzsche’s Zarathustra \tBy Jeffrey Metzger 24. Is It Possible to Reconcile Reason and Revelation? Their Mutual Relations in the Thought of Leo Strauss \tBy Kenneth Hart Green 25. History, Technology, and Justice: George Grant’s Discovery of Rousseau \tBy Hugh Donald Forbes 26. “Gods of Vengeance and Compassion”: The Withering Criticism of Compassion in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian \tBy Brent Edwin Cusher  IV. Liberalism, Humanitarianism and Contemporary Affairs 27.  Character vs. Free Will: Aristotle and Kant on Moral Responsibility \tBy Arthur M. Melzer 28. A Kantian Critique of “Public Reason” \tBy Susan Meld Shell 29. On the Uses and Abuses of the Notion of Sovereignty \tBy Miguel Morgado 30. Europe’s Democratic Odyssey \tBy Marc F. Plattner 31. Humane Warfare: An Ancient Perspective on a Modern Dilemma \tBy Linda R. Rabieh 32. A Polemic for Pedagogy? Or Socratic Pedagogy and Postmodern Partisanship in Liberal Education \tBy Michael Rosano","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037531799895,"sku":"9780739184165","price":136.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780739184165.jpg?v=1750936126","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-search-of-humanity-9780739184165","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}