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Leo Strauss and Alexander Kojève advanced sharply contrasting estimations of the modern tyrannies that arose in their lifetime. This collection of essays continues their debate, which centered on Xenophon’s dialogue, On Tyranny, but extended to a consideration of tyranny “ancient and modern” and finally to the philosophic underpinnings of modern political regimes.
English philosopher and critic Roger Scruton considers his intellectual odyssey, which has ranged from analytic philosophy at Cambridge to Hegel, Burke, and Plato’s Socrates, with topics including music, moral philosophy, and the relation of science to religion. Providing an overview of Scruton’s philosophic quest, the book shows how its elements cohere and serves as an unsurpassed introduction to...
Newell offers a typology of tyrants: the profit-and-pleasure-seeking “garden variety”; the would-be “reformers”; and the genocidal “millenarians.” Ranging widely across the globe and through the centuries, he provides a link between political philosophy and tyrannical practice that is often missing in the scholarly literature.
Nichols understands Thucydides as a “philosophic historian”—one who seeks not onlyfacts but the truth about human (especially political) freedom, the limits imposed on it by (especiallygeopolitical) necessity, and the ways in which statesmen mediate between them.
Against critics who charge Solzhenitsyn with authoritarianism and dogmatic nationalism, Mahoney argues that the Russian writer presented the basis for a Christian politics that avoids fanaticism and bigotry on the one hand and weakness or apolitical passivity a-on the other.
Moynihan is presented here as a social scientist who understood the limits of his discipline. He endorsed the redistributionist liberalism of the New Deal while rejecting the provision of social services by the federal government (as seen in the Great Society programs of the 1960s) because he regarded the science of administration adequate to the former but incapable of managing the latter. His critique...
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