Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard collects essays from 13 leading scholars that center
on key themes that characterize Kierkegaard's philosophy of religion. With their unique focus …

Political theory offers a great variety of interpretive traditions and models. Today, pluralism is
the paradigm. But are all approaches equally useful? What are their limits and possibilities …

In the wake of the “hermeneutical turn,” two approaches to textual interpretation have come
to wield considerable disciplinary influence in North American political theory circles: those …

A World History of Political Thought is an outstanding and innovative work with profound
significance for the study of the history of political thought, providing a wide-ranging, detailed …

Many writers talk of Strauss's “hermeneutic”. This term sounds innocuous. But it can be
misleading, even dangerous, deflecting attention from the real issue–Strauss's inadequate …

Leo Strauss is notorious for his repeated claim that various thinkers of the past, especially
the Great Old Ones among the political philosophers, practised what is often referred to as …

There is disagreement among scholars regarding the mendacity of esoteric writing. Some
see it as a necessarily dishonest mode of communication; others argue it does not meet the …

In this critical work on the political thought of Leo Strauss, Sean Noah Walsh addresses Leo
Strauss's claims about esotericism in the philosophic texts of Plato. He challenges Strauss's …

Peking University opened its center for Classical Studies on November 15, 2011. Because
Peking University is considered to be China's preeminent institution for the liberal arts and …

The twentieth century was a difficult time for democracy in most parts of the world. Even if we
do not accept Elie Halevy's definition of it as “the age of tyrannies”, 1 we may safely say that …