Reason, Faith, and Politics

Essays in Honor of Werner J. Dannhauser
Herausgeber: Kraynak, Robert P.; Melzer, Arthur M.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays honoring Werner J. Dannhauser addresses the timeless issue_lately become very timely_of the rivalry between reason and religion, especially as both relate to politics. The essays_by such scholars as Francis Fukuyama, Walter Berns, Jeremy Rabkin, and Ralph Lerner_range widely over Western intellectual history, from classical philosophy and ancient Israel, to the medieval period and the Renaissance, to Nietzsche and contemporary neoconservative thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9780739118351
• ISBN-10: 0739118358
• Artikelnr.: 23428708

Autorenporträt

Arthur Melzer is professor of political science at Michigan State University. Robert Kraynak is professor of political science at Colgate University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Table of Contents Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3
Introduction Part 4 I Reason: The Basis of Society or a Danger to Society?
Chapter 5 1 On the Inherent Tension between Reason and Society Chapter 6 2
Dispersal by Design: The Author's Choice Chapter 7 3 Liberalism Before
Disenchantment: Why Jean Bodin Advocated Witch-Hunting Chapter 8 4
Nietzsche and the Pre-Socratics Chapter 9 5 The Death of God and the
Eternal Feminine Part 10 II Faith: The Role of Religion in Political
Authority Chapter 11 6 Christianity and American Democracy: Harmony or
Hostility? Chapter 12 7 Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and the Jewish
Religion Chapter 13 8 Preserving the Third Temple: Geopolitics and Israel's
Permanent Crisis Part 14 II Politics: Constitutionalism and Foreign Policy
in Liberal Democracies Chapter 15 9 A Brief History of Neo-Conservative
Foreign Policy Chapter 16 10 The Rule of Law and the European Union Chapter
17 11 Ancients and Moderns: The Emergence of Modern Constitutionalism