Recently added articles from Perspectives on Political Science:
Religion and politics: introduction to a symposium on Mark Lilla's The Stillborn God.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Thoughts about the fact, cause, and meaning of existence remain. Why those thoughts persist, on what terms we deem them reasonable, and how they inform practical choices about the nature and extent of our freedom and responsibilities are questions whose answers take different shape in ...
Justice, vengeance, and the morality of honor.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Garrow, David J. Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade New York: Macmillan 981 pp., $28.00, ISBN: 0-02-542755-5 Publication Date: January 1994 Aladjem, Terry K. The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice ...
Shades of Montesquieu.(French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled Society? )(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... de Dijn, Annelien French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled Society? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 230 pp., $99.00 cloth ISBN: 978-0-5218-7788-1 Publication Date: ...
Back to where we started, or, the new hobbism comes out.(secularism)(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.--Mark 2:27 Mark Lilla knows that secularism is not easy, but in The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West1 he would arouse our efforts to the task. The days are gone when we post-Christian Westerners could ...
A response.(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2009; ... I am deeply flattered by the generous attention my readers have devoted to The Stillborn God. In all the discussion of the book, I have never felt so well understood (with a few exceptions). I cannot possibly respond to every criticism and question, so I have tried to organize my response ...
Recognition and restlessness in John Ford's The Searchers.
Jan 01, 2009; ... A puzzling discordance haunts the central character of John Ford's The Searchers. On one hand, Ethan Edwards exemplifies the ideal of the gruff, courageous, self-sufficient individual, flouting fortune and dependence on others while sarcastically exclaiming, "that'll be the day." This ...
The great conflation.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... We are still like children when it comes to thinking about modern political life, whose experimental nature we prefer not to contemplate. Instead we tell ourselves stories about how our big world came to be and why it is destined to persist. These are legends about the course of history, ...
Political theology and the theological-political problem.(The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West, Mark Lilla retells an old story, to which he attaches an important new sequel. (1) It is in both cases a story well worth hearing, not only because we are all too inclined to forget it, but also because we do so at our own ...
The persistence of theocracy: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.(Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... In his recent book The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West, Mark Lilla argues that contemporary secular thinkers have overlooked the continuing appeal and tenacious persistence of political theology in the modern world. In Lilla's view, the contemporary appeal of ...
Of conquest: an interpretation of Chapters 3-5 of Machiavelli's Prince.(Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Niccolo Machiavelli presents his book The Prince as an easily understood how-to treatise on politics--jaundiced enough to be useful and short enough not to be intimidating. However, as Leo Strauss demonstrates, the argument of The Prince proceeds on a number of levels. (1) These levels ...
Plutarch among the postcolonialists.(Viewpoint essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract: Postcolonial interpreters of Plutarch attempt to resolve apparent contradictions between the rhetoric of the Lives and Plutarch's attitudes toward Roman dominion by invoking conscious and unconscious tensions incident to the identity politics of a colonized Greek elite. This ...
Joseph, Gilbert M., and Daniela Spenser, eds. In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Joseph, Gilbert M., and Daniela Spenser, eds. In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press 439 pp., $99.95 cloth, $26.95 paper ISBN 978-0-8223-4102-4 cloth ISBN ...
Sherlock, Richard Nature's End: The Theological Meaning of the New Genetics.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Sherlock, Richard Nature's End: The Theological Meaning of the New Genetics Wilmington, DE: ISI 196 pp., $15.00 ISBN 978-1933859393 Publication Date: April 2008 Theology's Elusive Answers For those people whose ...
Buell, Emmett H. Jr., and Lee Sigelman: Attack Politics: Negativity in Presidential Campaigns Since 1960.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Buell, Emmett H. Jr., and Lee Sigelman Attack Politics: Negativity in Presidential Campaigns Since 1960 Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 368 pg., $34.95, ISBN 978-0-7006-1561-2 Publication Date: April 2008 Negativity in American ...
Graham, John Remington: Blood Money: The Civil War and the Federal Reserve.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Graham, John Remington Blood Money: The Civil War and the Federal Reserve Gretna, LA: Pelican 96 pp., $12.95 paper, ISBN 1-58980-398-1 Publication Date: July 2006 The author of this work--John Remington Graham--shows that students of ...
Taylor, Natalie Fuehrer The Rights of Woman as Chimera: The Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Taylor, Natalie Fuehrer The Rights of Woman as Chimera: The Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft New York and London: Routledge 218 pp., $110.00 cloth, ISBN 0-415-97853 Publication Date: November 2007 In this innovative and ...
Weiss, Penny A., and Loretta Kensinger, eds.: Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Weiss, Penny A., and Loretta Kensinger, eds. Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman University Park, PA: Penn State University Press 360 pp., $95.00 cloth, $35.00 paper ISBN 978-0-271-02975-7 cloth ISBN 978-0-271-02976-4 paper ...
Aristotle's Politics, Book I: a reconsideration.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract: Modern science, particularly Thomas Hobbes, begins with a broad attack on Aristotle intended to replace "Aristotelity" in the universities. This attack, however, was superficial and never properly reconsidered when Hobbes and his cohort were in turn superseded. The connection ...
Adam Smith and the culture of enterprise.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract: In this article, the author considers Adam Smith's contributions to our idea of what constitutes a proper culture of enterprise. The author argues that Smith anticipated many later critiques of how markets and the division of labor alter the nature of life in modern society. The ...
Revisiting heroism and community in contemporary Westerns: No Country for Old Men and 3:10 to Yuma.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Abstract: By exploring the tensions between heroism and the community it supports, classic Westerns defend American individualism and offer sober reflection on its costs. In No Country for Old Men, Joel and Ethan Coen present a contemporary Western set in west Texas in 1980 with the ...