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1 online resource (665 pages) |
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Political Philosophy; Is There a Future Tradition?; PART 1: MODERN CONSTRUCTIVISM OR PHENOMENOLOGY; Preface to Part 1: Modernity and Its Closure; 2 The ""End of History"" or a Portal to the Future: Does Anything Lie Beyond Late Modernity?; 3 What Is Political Philosophy: A Phenomenological Approach; 4 Machiavelli's The Prince and the Essence of Modernity; 5 Phenomenology or Constructivism: Robert Pippin's Modernity; 6 Cacophony or Silence: Derrida's Deconstructionism and the Possibility of Political Philosophy. |
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PART 2: LEO STRAUSS AND THE TRADITION AN ENGAGEMENT; Preface to Part 2: Remembrance and Tradition; 7 Who Was Leo Strauss?; 8 Leo Strauss and the Straussians: An Anti-Democratic Cult?; 9 Athens and Washington: Leo Strauss and the American Regime; 10 On a Possible Epicurean Garden for Philosophy: Philosophy and the City in the Thought of Leo Strauss; 11On Cropsey's World: Joseph Cropsey and the Tradition of Political Philosophy; 12 On the Tradition of Political Philosophy in the Future: Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger; PART 3: THE NON-METAPHYSICAL PLATO: SECOND BEGINNINGS? |
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Preface to Part 3: Plato, Platonism, and a Second Beginning13 Dialogue and Dialectic in Plato's Phaedo: Plato as Metaphysician, Epistemologist, Ontologist and Political Philosopher; 14 Political Philosophy and Eros: Plato's Socrates in the Symposium; 15 Plato's Parmenides: Socratism and the Origins of Platonic Political Philosophy; 16 Between Platonism and Postmodemism: Plato's Emendation of Socratism in the Trilogy; 17 Aristotle on Reason and Its Limits; PART 4: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AFTER MODERNITY?; Preface to Part 4: Openings Toward the Postmodem. |
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18 Legitimacy, International Morality and the Postmodern Global Future19 Jerusalem and Washington: Political Philosophy and Theology; 20 Ontology, Technology, Poetry or Mandarin Pastime? Theoretical Physics in the Postmodern Age; 21 The Queen of the Sciences: Political Philosophy or Biology?; 22 Political Philosophy and Environmentalism: Recovering the Phenomenon ""Nature""; 23 Conclusion: Is There a Future?; Index; About the Author. |
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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. |
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Smith, Gregory B. Between Eternities : On the Tradition of Political Philosophy. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2008 9780739120774 |
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9781461632993 (electronic book) |
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1461632994 (electronic book) |
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