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Modern Liberty and Its Discontents

Author : Pierre Manent
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585120153
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Modern Liberty and Its Discontents written by Pierre Manent and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, distinguished French philosopher Pierre Manent addresses a wide range of subjects, including the Machiavellian origins of modernity, Tocqueville's analysis of democracy, the political role of Christianity, the nature of totalitarianism, and the future of the nation-state. As a whole, the book constitutes a meditation on the nature of modern freedom and the permanent discontents which accompany it. Manent is particularly concerned with the effects of modern democracy on the maintenance and sustenance of substantial human ties. Modern Liberty and its Discontents is both an important contribution to an understanding of modern society, and a significant contribution to political philosophy in its own right.

Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents

Author : Frank Ruda
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531505333
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents by : Frank Ruda

Download or read book Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents written by Frank Ruda and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. Indifference and Repetition examines how modern philosophy, largely coextensive with a particular boost in capitalism’s development, registers the reductive and regressive tendencies produced by capitalism’s effect on individuals and society. Ruda examines a problem that has invisibly been shaping the history of modern, especially rationalist philosophical thought, a problem of misunderstanding freedom. Thinkers like Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and Marx claim that there are conceptions and interpretations of freedom that lead the subjects of these interpretations to no longer act and think freely. They are often unwillingly led into unfreedom. It is thus possible that even “freedom” enslaves. Modern philosophical rationalism, whose conceptual genealogy the books traces and unfolds, assigns a name to this peculiar form of domination by means of freedom: indifference. Indifference is a name for the assumption that freedom is something that human beings have: a given, a natural possession. When we think freedom is natural or a possession we lose freedom. Modern philosophy, Ruda shows, takes its shape through repeated attacks on freedom as indifference; it is the owl that begins its flight, so that the days of unfreedom will turn to dusk.

Modernity and Its Discontents

Author : Steven B. Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220987
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Its Discontents written by Steven B. Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project’s most powerful defenders and critics—from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin—this provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.

Gladly to Learn and Gladly to Teach

Author : Ernest L. Fortin
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739103104
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Gladly to Learn and Gladly to Teach written by Ernest L. Fortin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For half a century, Ernest Fortin's scholarship has charmed and educated theologians and philosophers with its intellectual search for the best way to live. Written by friends, colleagues, and students of Fortin, this book pays tribute to a remarkable thinker in a series of essays that bear eloquent testimony to Fortin's influence and his legacy. A formidable commentator on Catholic philosophical and political thought, Ernest Fortin inspired others with his restless inquiries beyond the boundaries of conventional scholarship. With essays on subjects ranging across philosophy, political science, literature, and theology Gladly to Learn and Gladly to Teach reflects the astonishing depth and breadth of Fortin's contribution to contemporary thought.

The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century

Author : Peter E. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108638600
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century written by Peter E. Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and offers both originality and interpretive insight. This second volume surveys twentieth-century European intellectual history, conceived as a crisis in modernity. Comprised of twenty-one chapters, it focuses on figures such as Freud, Heidegger, Adorno and Arendt, surveys major schools of thought including Phenomenology, Existentialism, and Conservatism, and discusses critical movements such as Postcolonialism, , Structuralism, and Post-structuralism. Renouncing a single 'master narrative' of European thought across the period, Peter E. Gordon and Warren Breckman establish a formidable new multi-faceted vision of European intellectual history for the global modern age.

The Passion of Charles Péguy

Author : Glenn H. Roe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198718071
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Passion of Charles Péguy written by Glenn H. Roe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, the development of twentieth-century literary criticism and theory can be seen as a prolonged struggle against the pervading influence of nineteenth-century positivist historicism. Anglo-American New Criticism and later French Post-structuralism and Deconstruction are the best-known instances of this conflict. Less widely known, but no less important to contemporary literary studies, are Charles Péguy's earlier debates with French academic historicism in the years leading up to World War One. First examined by Antoine Compagnon in his ground-breaking work La Troisième République des lettres in 1983, it is a period in French literary and cultural history that remains, some thirty years later, largely untreated in English. This book thus addresses an important, albeit relatively unexplored, moment in the development of twentieth-century literary history and theory. By way of Péguy's foundational polemics with modernity and his role in the related crisis of historicism, we gain a better understanding of the critical basis from which similar anti-positivist and anti-historicist critiques were later enacted on both sides of the Atlantic. In situating Péguy's passions and polemics within the larger cultural and historical context, Glenn H. Roe invites us to reconsider and re-evaluate Péguy's place among twentieth-century literary figures. Beyond its literary-critical aspects, The Passion of Charles Péguy provides a general view of early twentieth-century debates related to the role of literary studies in modern society, the reform of the French educational system, and the formation of literary history as an academic discipline in both France and abroad.

Liberalism and Its Discontents

Author : Alan Brinkley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674001850
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Liberalism and Its Discontents written by Alan Brinkley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the role of alternate political traditions in liberalism's downfall, 'Liberalism and its Discontents' shows how historical interpretation has been a reflection of liberal assumptions.

Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought

Author : Anoush Fraser Terjanian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107005647
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought by : Anoush Fraser Terjanian

Download or read book Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought written by Anoush Fraser Terjanian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the ambivalence towards commerce in eighteenth-century France, questioning the assumption that commerce was widely celebrated in the era of Adam Smith.

Leo Strauss and His Legacy

Author : John Albert Murley
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739106167
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Leo Strauss and His Legacy written by John Albert Murley and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 10,000 entries, this bibliography is the most comprehensive guide to published writing in the tradition of Leo Strauss, who lived from 1899 to 1973 and was one of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century. John A. Murley provides Strauss's own complete bibliography and identifies the work of hundreds of Strauss's students, and their students' students. Leo Strauss and His Legacy charts the path of influence of a beloved teacher and mentor, a deep and lasting heritage that permeates the classrooms of the twenty-first century. Each new generation of students of political philosophy will find this bibliography an indispensable resource.

Dimensions of Politics and English Jurisprudence

Author : Sean Coyle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196590
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Dimensions of Politics and English Jurisprudence written by Sean Coyle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines modern politics, justice and order in light of the historical, philosophical and theological forces which helped define them.

Puritanism and Its Discontents

Author : Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138177
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Puritanism and Its Discontents by : Laura Lunger Knoppers

Download or read book Puritanism and Its Discontents written by Laura Lunger Knoppers and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing core discontents, the essays restore the anxiety-ridden radical nature of Puritanism, helping to account for its force in the seventeenth century and the popular and scholarly interest that it continues to evoke. Innovative and challenging in scope and argument, the volume should be of interest to scholars of early modern British and American history, literature, culture, and religion."--BOOK JACKET.

Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today

Author : Peter Augustine Lawler
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739154966
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today written by Peter Augustine Lawler and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2001-03-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich and varied collection of essays addresses some of the most fundamental human questions through the lenses of philosophy, literature, religion, politics, and theology. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey have fashioned an interdisciplinary consideration of such perennial and enduring issues as the relationship between nature and history, nature and grace, reason and revelation, classical philosophy and Christianity, modernity and postmodernity, repentance and self-limitation, and philosophy and politics.

De Tocqueville

Author : Cheryl B. Welch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198781318
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book De Tocqueville written by Cheryl B. Welch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought present critical examinations of the work of major political philosphers and social theorists, assessing both their initial contribution and continuing relevance to politics and society. Each volume provides a clear, accessible, historically-informed account of each thinker's work, focusing on a reassessment of their central ideas and arguments. Founders encourage scholars and students to link their study of classic texts to current debates in political philosophy and social theory. Alexis de Tocqueville is one of the most topical and debated figures in contemporary political and social theory. This clear new introduction to de Tocqueville's thought examines in detail his classic works and their major themes. Welch argues thet Tocqueville's major themes tap into deep anxieties about democratic practices and his writings help us to identify the major fault lines in democracy at the turn of the new century. Beginning with a consideration of Tocqueville's distinctiveness against the historical background and intellectual context of his time, Welch goes on to trace the development of his thought on democracy and revolution, history, slavery, religion, and gender, including chapters dealing with his writings on France and the United States. The final chapter then explores Tocqueville's historical legacy and his contemporary significance, illuminating the reasons why this displaced nineteenth century aristocrat has become one of the most topical figures in contemporary political and social theory.

Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy

Author : Richard Boyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107009634
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy written by Richard Boyd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays uses Alexis de Tocqueville's writings as a jumping-off point to explore the dilemmas of democratization in the twenty-first century"--

The Sheed and Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy

Author : James C. Swindal
Publisher : Sheed & Ward
ISBN 13 : 1461667879
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Sheed and Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy written by James C. Swindal and published by Sheed & Ward. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheed & Ward Anthology of Catholic Philosophy is a thorough introduction to the evolution of Catholic philosophy from Biblical times to the present day. The first comprehensive collection of readings from Catholic philosophers, this volume aims to sharpen the understanding of Catholic philosophy by grouping together the best examples of this tradition, both well-known classics and lesser-known selections. The readings emphasize themes integral to the Catholic tradition such as the harmony of faith and reason, the existence and nature of God, the nature of the human person and the nature of being, and the objectivity of the moral law. Each reading includes a brief introduction and is historically placed within five major groups—1) Preliminaries, including readings from the Bible, Plato and Aristotle, 2) The Patristic Era, selections from Aristides to Boethius, and a heavy focus on Augustine, 3) The Middle Ages, readings from the early Moslem and Jewish thinkers to William of Ockham, with an emphasis on Aquinas, 4) The Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century, including Suarez, Descartes, Pascal, Newman, and Pope Leo XIII, and 5) The Twentieth Century and Beyond, including Maritain and Lonergan, Blondel and Marcel, Geach and Rescher, and others like Chesterton and Teilhard. —

Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human

Author : Paul Franco
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022680030X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human written by Paul Franco and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Franco explores the relationship between Nietzsche and Rousseau and their critique of modern life. Franco begins by arguing that 'among philosophers, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche are perhaps the two most influential explorers and shapers of the moral and cultural imagination of late modernity.' And yet Nietzsche was often highly critical of Rousseau. Indeed, their critiques of modern life differ in important respects. Rousseau focused on the growing political and economic inequality in modern society and proposed a more egalitarian politics. Nietzsche decried the inability of society to take account of the exceptional individual and found Rousseau's political ideas wrong-headed"--Publisher marketing.

Traveling Back

Author : Susan McWilliams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199329680
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Traveling Back written by Susan McWilliams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to think globally? Susan McWilliams argues that to understand politics in our 'new world,' we should revisit one of the oldest themes in political theory: travel. This title uncovers the rich travel-story tradition of political theorizing and shows how it helps to answer today's toughest political questions.