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  • Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society

    A Philosophical Defense of the Liberal Arts

    by John von Heyking, S. F. McGuire, Ann Ward, Carol Browning Cooper, Alex Ambrose, Glenn Hughes, Rebecca LeMoine, Lee Trepanier ...
    A life of liberty and responsibility does not just happen, but requires a particular kind of education, one that aims at both a growth of the human soul and an enrichment of political society in justice and the common good. This we call a liberal education. Forgetfulness of liberty is also a forgetfulness of the multi-dimensional nature of the human person, and a diminution of political life. ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • The Form of Politics

    Aristotle and Plato on Friendship

    by John von Heyking ...
    Series Book 66 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
    For statesmen, friendship is the lingua franca of politics. Considering the connections between personal and political friendship, John von Heyking’s The Form of Politics interprets the texts of Plato and Aristotle and emphasizes the role that friendship has in enduring philosophical and contemporary political contexts.Beginning with a discussion on virtue-friendship, described by Aristotle and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Form of Politics

    Aristotle and Plato on Friendship

    by John von Heyking ...
    Series Book 66 - McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
    For statesmen, friendship is the lingua franca of politics. Considering the connections between personal and political friendship, John von Heyking’s The Form of Politics interprets the texts of Plato and Aristotle and emphasizes the role that friendship has in enduring philosophical and contemporary political contexts.Beginning with a discussion on virtue-friendship, described by Aristotle and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Personalism for the Twenty-First Century

    Essays in Honor of David Walsh

    by Thomas W. Holman, Richard Avramenko, Corbin V. Cali, Matthew T. Cantirino, James Greenaway, Philip J. Harold, Herbert Hartmann, John von Heyking, John McNerney0, Bartholomew Jerome Santamaria1, David Sollenberger2, Robert Wyllie3 ...
    Series series Political Theory for Today
    The noted professor David Walsh has called for a new "personalist language of persons," with vast implications in a variety of academic fields. Moving away from a language that refers to persons as 'things', and seeks to find connections and relations within all of us. In Personalism for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of David Walsh, a diverse group of scholars apply and extend Walsh's ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought

    by Caylan Ford, John von Heyking, Timothy Hoye, Jin Jin, Jin Li, Li Ma, Todd Myers, Stephen Noakes, Brendan Purcell, Jonathan Ratcliffe, Jaroslaw Marek Duraj0, Lee Trepanier1 ...
    Series series Political Theory for Today
    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 together a mixture of established and rising scholars from both Asia and the West to reflect upon the political philosopher’s thought about China, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, and India. From Voegelin’s writings, ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Tradition v. Rationalism

    Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others

    by Eugene Callahan, David Corey, Daniel John Sportiello, Colin Cordner, Kenneth B. McIntyre, Ferenc Hörcher, Nathanael Blake, John von Heyking, Zoltan Balazs, Grant Havers0, Mark T. Mitchell1, Timothy Fuller2, Lee Trepanier3 ...
    Series series Political Theory for Today
    In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide had reached its high mark in the arts, politics, and work. But the Holocaust, the Gulag, and other failures have dimmed the popularity of rationalism. However, the evidence of those practical failures would not have been as convincing as it was if not for the existence of a theoretical diagnosis of the malady. This book compares and ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Teaching in an Age of Ideology

    by Leah Bradshaw, Charles R. Embry, Molly Brigid Flynn, Bryan-Paul Frost, Lance M. Grigg, Michael Henry, Tim Hoye, Michael Zuckert, Nalin Ranasinghe, Travis D. Smith ...
    This volume explores the role of some of the most prominent twentieth-century philosophers and political thinkers as teachers. It examines how these teachers conveyed truth to their students against the ideological influences found in the university and society. Philosophers from Edmund Husserl and Hannah Arendt to political thinkers like Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss, and their students such as ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    by Hannah Arendt ...
    After the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, Hannah Arendt undertook an investigation of Marxism, a subject that she had deliberately left out of her earlier work. Her inquiry into Marx’s philosophy led her to a critical examination of the entire tradition of Western political thought, from its origins in Plato and Aristotle to its culmination and conclusion in Marx. The ... Read more

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  • The Sane Society

    by Erich Fromm ...
    A New York Times bestseller about overcoming the profound ills of modern society by a legendary social psychologist, the author of Escape from Freedom ."A distinguished contribution to a growing body of social-psychological reflections on modern times." — The Washington PostOne of Fromm's main interests was to analyze social sy... ... Read more

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  • Plato

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Julia Annas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This lively and accessible introduction to Plato focuses on the philosophy and argument of his writings, drawing the reader into Plato's way of doing philosophy, and the general themes of his thinking. This is not a book to leave the reader standing in the outer court of introduction and background information, but leads directly into Plato's argument. It looks at Plato as a thinker grappling with ... Read more

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  • Closing of the American Mind

    by Allan Bloom ...
    The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition.In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with ... Read more

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  • Meditations

    by René Descartes ...
    Translated by Desmond M. Clarke ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence itself.GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They ... Read more

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