Recovering reason : essays in honor of Thomas L. Pangle / edited by Timothy Burns
- Published:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2010]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2010
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 487 pages ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Burns, Timothy, 1958- and Pangle, Thomas L.
- Contents:
- Timothy Burns -- 1. Homer and the Foundation of Classical Civilization -- Peter J. Ahrensdorf -- 2. Prometheus and Oedipus: The Arrogance and Limits of Art and Reason -- Arlene W. Saxonhouse -- 3. What War Discloses -- Timothy Burns -- 4. The Classical Rationalism of Thucydides -- Steven Forde -- 5. The Aristophanic Question -- Paul A. Rahe -- 6. On the Power of Rhetoric: Gorgias and the Philosophic Foundation of Sophistry -- Michael P. Zuckert -- 7. Socrates and the Sophists -- Devin Stauffer -- 8. Thrasymachus's Blush -- David Leibowitz -- 9. Civic or Human Virtue in Aristotle's Politics -- Robert Goldberg -- 10. Happiness in the Perspective of Philosophy -- Christopher Bruell -- 11. Maimonides's Treatment of Providence -- Linda R. Rabieh -- 12. A Slingshot Recoils: The Critique of Philosophy in Halevi's Kuzari -- Richard S. Ruderman -- 13. Thinking Nietzsche Through and Strauss's Recovery of Classical Political Philosophy -- Christopher Baldwin -- 14. John Toland and Leo Strauss on Esoteric Writing -- J. Judd Owen -- 15. Did Plato Believe in his own Metaphysics? And Did Strauss? -- Waller R. Newell -- 16. Leo Strauss on Machiavelli and the Origins of Modernity -- Nathan Tarcov -- 17. Aristotelian Kingship and Lockean Prerogative -- Ross J. Corbett -- 18. "For Which Human Nature Can Never Be Too Grateful": Montesquieu as the Heir of Christianity -- Clifford Orwin -- 19. "They Flock into Cities; Their Situation is Less Precarious": David Hume and the Intellectual Origins of the American Founding -- John W. Danford -- 20. Rousseau on the Philosophical Life Les reveries du Promeneur Solitaire -- Heinrich Meier -- 21. Schiller on Aesthetic Education: Radicalization by Return -- Fred Baumann -- 22. Stendhal and the Promise of Happiness: An Introduction to the Charterhouse of Parma -- Robert C. Bartlett -- 23. Tocqueville's Burke, or Story as History -- Ralph Lerner -- 24. Corrupting or Edifying? Cato the Elder and Cicero on the Role of Philosophy in Roman Civic Education -- Bryan-Paul Frost -- 25. Abstract Painting and the Rule of Doubt -- Laurie Fendrich -- 26. Kissinger and Thucydides -- Donald Kagan -- 27. Charles Taylor as a Theorist of Multiculturalism Recognition/Authenticity -- H. Donald Forbes -- 28. Neuroplasticity, Perfectibility, and Three Ideas of Nature -- Norman Doidge.
- Summary:
- ""An extraordinarily fine collection of essays-wide-ranging, yet coherent and profound-that pays fitting tribute to the work of Thomas L. Pangle, one of the truly great scholars and teachers of our generation."-Arthur Melzer, Michigan State University" ""The best way to honor a great scholar is with more great scholarship. Over the past few decades, Thomas L. Pangle has been one of the most illuminating and prolific commentators on the history of political philosophy. As a teacher, he has educated several generations of wonderfully talented students. The discipline of political philosophy has been hugely enriched both by Pangle's own work and by the work he has helped inspire in students and collegues-as this excellent volume so powerfully testifies."-Ronald Beiner, University of Toronto" ""This bold and spirited volume provides a vivid tribute to the teaching of Thomas L. Pangle. Over a long career at Yale, Toronto, and now the University of Texas, Pangle has attracted students devoted to carrying on the legacy of his teacher. Leo Strauss, and bringing it to its current height of influence. Pangle's own writings, whether on Plato dialogues, Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws or the Hebrew Bible, have contributed both to our understanding of these texts and to the esteem in which Strauss's legacy is held today."-Steven B. Smith, Yale University" "Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle is a collection of essays composed by students and friends of Thomas L. Pangle to honor his seminal work and outstanding guidance in the study of political philosophy. The essays examine the attempts of political thinkers, ancient and modern, from Homer and Thucydides to Nietzsche and Charles Taylor, to answer the question of the right life for human beings." "Timothy Burns is associate professor of government at Skidmore College."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN:
- 9780739146316 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739146319 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739146323 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0739146327 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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