Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation. Daniel Philpott. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Should war criminal be granted amnesty if their assent is…
Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn
Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn. Joel Isaac. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012. Working Knowledge presents an institutional history of the “human…
Reformations. The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
Reformations. The Early Modern World, 1450-1650. Carlos M. N. Eire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. Reformation is a retelling of this epochal change in western…
The Reformation: A History
The Reformation: A History. Diarmaid MacCulloch. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. The word “Protestant” was originally related to a specific occasion in 1529 when at the…
The Figure of Modernity: On the Irregularity of an Epoch
The Figure of Modernity: On the Irregularity of an Epoch. Tilo Schabert. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. What is modernity and from where does it come? What…
Freedom from Reality. The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty
Freedom from Reality. The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty. D.C. Schindler. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. This book examines the philosophical roots…
Paleolithic Politics: The Human Community in Early Art
Paleolithic Politics: The Human Community in Early Art. Barry Cooper. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Voegelin’s argued that ancient civilizations, like the Babylonians…
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. Yeun Yuen Ang. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. How can poor and weak societies escape poverty traps? What comes…
The Decline of the Novel
The Decline of the Novel. Joseph Bottum. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2019. The advent of the novel and the examination of the interior and…
Consciousness and Politics. From Antiquity to Meditations in the Late Work of Eric Voegelin.
Consciousness and Politics. From Antiquity to Meditations in the Late Work of Eric Voegelin. Barry Cooper. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2018. Consciousness and Politics…
Eric Voegelin and Asia
Predictions of the West’s decline and the rise of Asia have been a recurrent theme in academia, policy studies, and journalism since the emergence of Japan as…
Knowledge, Sophistry, & Scientific Politics: Plato’s Dialogues. Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman
Knowledge, Sophistry, & Scientific Politics: Plato’s Dialogues. Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman. James M. Rhodes. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2020. Rhodes wants to see whether…
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich (1926-2002) was a one-time Catholic priest, Austrian philosopher, and anarchist social critic of various forms of professional authority. His foremost critique of modern culture was…
Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought
The rise of Asia in global affairs has forced western thinkers to rethink their assumptions, theories, and conclusions about the region. Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought brings…
Political Theory: Methods and Approaches
Political Theory: Methods and Approaches. David Leopold and Marc Stears, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. As their book opens, “Political theorists are often silent on…