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Articulating the World
Conceptual Understanding and the Scientific Image
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Naturalism as a guiding philosophy for modern science both disavows any appeal to the supernatural or anything else transcendent to nature, and repudiates any philosophical or religious authority over the workings and conclusions of the sciences. A longstanding paradox within naturalism, however,...
Ethics and the Orator
The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In Ethics and the Orator, Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder. He argues that the Ciceronian tradition is based...
by Stuart Elden
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare’s unique historical position and political...
Toward "Natural Right and History"
Lectures and Essays by Leo Strauss, 1937–1946
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Natural Right and History is widely recognized as Strauss’s most influential work. The six lectures, written while Strauss was at the New School, and a full transcript of the 1949 Walgreen Lectures show Strauss working toward the ideas he would present in fully matured form in his landmark work....
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli's doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and the Discourses...
by Leo Strauss
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
In one of his last books, Socrates and Aristophanes, Leo Strauss's examines the confrontation between Socrates and Aristophanes in Aristophanes' comedies. Looking at eleven plays, Strauss shows that this confrontation is essentially one between poetry and philosophy, and that poetry emerges as an...
The Philosophy Scare
The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
From the rise of formalist novels that championed the heroism of the individual to the proliferation of abstract art as a counter to socialist realism, the years of the Cold War had a profound impact on American intellectual life. As John McCumber shows in this fascinating account, philosophy, too,...
Science from Sight to Insight
How Scientists Illustrate Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
John Dalton’s molecular structures. Scatter plots and geometric diagrams. Watson and Crick’s double helix. The way in which scientists understand the world—and the key concepts that explain it—is undeniably bound up in not only words, but images. Moreover, from PowerPoint presentations to...
by D. C. Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
This year marks the centenary publication of John Dewey’s magnum opus, Democracy and Education. Despite its profound importance as a foundational text in education, it is notoriously difficult and—dare we say it—a little dry. In this charming and often funny companion, noted philosopher of education...
Schooling Selves
Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Balancing the development of autonomy with that of social interdependence is a crucial aim of education in any society, but nowhere has it been more hotly debated than in Japan, where controversial education reforms over the past twenty years have attempted to reconcile the two goals. In this book,...
The Bourgeois Virtues
Ethics for an Age of Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all...
The Good Project
Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
NGOs set out to save lives, relieve suffering, and service basic human needs. They are committed to serving people across national borders and without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, or religion, and they offer crucial help during earthquakes, tsunamis, wars, and pandemics. But with so many ailing...
Feed-Forward
On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Even as media in myriad forms increasingly saturate our lives, we nonetheless tend to describe our relationship to it in terms from the twentieth century: we are consumers of media, choosing to engage with it. In Feed-Forward, Mark B. N. Hansen shows just how outmoded that way of thinking is: media...
McKay's Bees
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855 with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees—undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly-minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war.