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There are lots of travel books, and most of them have the same structure: Why I traveled to Upper Revolting; What happened to me in Upper Revolting;…
There are lots of travel books, and most of them have the same structure: Why I traveled to Upper Revolting; What happened to me in Upper Revolting;…
For anyone who wishes to orient himself in today’s politics–or simply to understand something of the last centuries’ history–nothing is more urgent than obtaining some clarity about…
The Theological Origins of Modernity. Michael Allen Gillespie. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. One of the most substantial contributions to the discussion about the nature…
[There is more] to the resistance of Callicles than the fear of a Socratic popular success. The situation of the dialogue is not that of an assembly…
Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is literature. Life in this sense dwells within all ordinary people…
Although neither Eric Voegelin nor Jacques Derrida had ever written about each other's works, both thinkers were engaged in the same project of creating and sustaining an…
From Big Bang to Big Mystery: Human Origins in the Light of Creation and Evolution. Brendan Purcell. New York: New City Press, 2012. Brendan Purcell’s From…
Understanding Music, Philosophy and Interpretation. Roger Scruton. New York: Continuum Press, 2009. Scruton’s Understanding Music is a collection of previously published essays, with the first part…
Philosophy and the American Outlook Tocqueville presents American democracy in its practice as learning by doing and not through philosophical ideas. But in the first part of…
G.K. Chesterton: A Biography. Ian Ker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. It is certainly a great thick square book (on a great thick round subject). A…
Government Both Political and Royal The greatest English political thinker of the fifteenth century, Sir John Fortescue (ca. 1394-ca. 1477), served as a member of Parliament in…