Leo Strauss in Chicago.(University of Chicago)(Viewpoint ...
Author: Stanley Rosen Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 19 Publication Date: 2006-06-22 Release Date: 2006-09-01 [... more]
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Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality
 an ingenious argument for a subtle conception of liberal equ: With Sovereign Virtue, Ronald Dworkin finally presents his political theory in a form convenient for the general reader, stripped of the specialized arguments about jurisprudence on which he [... more]
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Leo Strauss and Nietzsche
Chasing phantoms: This is what happens when you take esotericism too far. Lampert should have better heeded Strauss' warning that textual clues must be supportable in some measure by the text itelf--or else pondered Strauss' argument that "the [... more]
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The Mexican War, 1846-1848
A Really good book. Highly reccommended.: Bauer has done a great job here. It might be a little spare on the personalities, but for those who know nothing about this war, and there are multitudes, this is a good start. The only thing I disagree with is [... more]
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Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to ...
The Clearest ANT: Perhaps it has a lot to do with the book being written in English (or at least it appears to have been, there is no translator listed), but this is by far the most lucid thing I've read by Latour. In a way it's a radical break, he [... more]
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Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to ...
The Clearest ANT: Perhaps it has a lot to do with the book being written in English (or at least it appears to have been, there is no translator listed), but this is by far the most lucid thing I've read by Latour. In a way it's a radical break, he [... more]
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Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality
an ingenious argument for a subtle conception of liberal equ: With Sovereign Virtue, Ronald Dworkin finally presents his political theory in a form convenient for the general reader, stripped of the specialized arguments about jurisprudence on which he [... more]
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Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in ...
Excellent survey, stylistically conservative: Martin Jay provides us with an encyclopedic survey of the role of vision in western thought, particularly France. Jay, who is strangely not dissimilar to Greil Marcus in this respect, has the knack for [... more]
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The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International ...
Lessons from the past: The current global political climate has led many observers to draw parallels between the American empire and those of Rome and Great Britain, and to the extent that all three, at the height of their power, were globally dominant, [... more]
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On Collective Memory (Heritage of Sociology Series)
Just a word of advice for researchers: I have just received the book and the text seems to be great. I only think it should be worth advising readers that the first four chapters of "The social frameworks of memory" are abridged versions of the [... more]
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Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human ...
Outdated in Detail, Still a Telling Critique in Broad Outline: Edward O. Wilson's great work Sociobiology unleashed a furor of vitriolic criticism from mainstream social scientists, who preferred purely cultural models of human behavior, and from [... more]
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Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision ...
Don Boudreaux's review: The picture on the dust jacket of this latest book by my Nobel prize-winning colleague James Buchanan has nothing to do with the book's title or its contents. The dust-jacket shows a photographer's cloth backdrop, with absolutely [... more]
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