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- Book Title
- Revolt Against Modernity : Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Post-Liberal Order
- Publication Name
- Revolt against Modernity
- Title
- Revolt against Modernity
- Subtitle
- Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Orde
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780700608737
- ISBN
- 9780700608737
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Genre
- Philosophy, Political Science
- Release Year
- 1996
- Release Date
- 30/01/1996
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Series
- American Political Thought
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Topic
- History & Theory, General, Political
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 340 Pages
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Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss are two of the most provocative and durable political philosophers of this century. Ted McAllister's superbly written study provides the first comprehensive comparison of their thought and its profound influence on contemporary American conservatism. Since the appearance in the 1950s of Strauss's Natural Right and History and Voegelin's Order and History, conservatives like Russell Kirk, Irving Kristol, and Allan Bloom have increasingly turned to these thinkers to support their attacks on liberalism and the modernist mindset. Like so many conservatives, Strauss and Voegelin rebelled against modernity' amorality--personified by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche--and its promotion of individualism and materialism over communal and spiritual responsibility. While both disdained the reductionist "conservative" label, conservatives nevertheless appropriated their philosophy, in part because it restored theology and classical tradition to the moral core of civil society. For both men, modernity's debilitating disorder revealed surprising and disturbing relations among liberal, communist, and Nazi ideologies. In their eyes, modernity's insidious virus, so apparent in the Nazi and communist regimes, lies incubating within liberal democracy itself. McAllister's thorough reevaluation of Strauss and Voegelin expands our understanding of their thought and restores balance to a literature that has been dominated by political theorists and disciples of Strauss and Voegelin. Neither reverential nor dismissive, he reveals the social, historical, political, and philosophical foundations of their work and effectively decodes their frequently opaque or esoteric thinking. Well written and persuasively argued, McAllister's study will appeal to anyone engaged in the volatile debates over liberalism's demise and conservatism's rise.
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University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700608737
ISBN-13
9780700608737
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1072842
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Book Title
Revolt Against Modernity : Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Post-Liberal Order
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, General, Political
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
340 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
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"McAllister traces an American counter-tradition in the work of thinkers for whom modernity was as much tragedy as triumph. An important contribution to our self-understanding as well as to the history of ideas."-- Jean Bethke Elshtain , author of Democracy on Trial "A lively, nuanced, and insightful account of the two contemporary giants of political philosophy. Warmly recommended."-- Ellis Sandoz , Director, Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies and editor of Eric Voegelin's Significance for the Modern Mind "A beautifully written book that lucidly examines the major works of Strauss and Voegelin for an understanding of the origins and nature of our modern predicament. It is 'must' reading for an appreciation of the theoretical foundations of modern American conservative thought which, as McAllister makes clear, owes so much to these two giants."-- George W. Carey , editor of The Political Science Reviewer "This book is fair and thoughtful. There is no ideological distortion in McAllister's readings; he illuminates rather than obscures."-- Stanley Rosen , author of The Ancients and the Moderns: Rethinking Modernity "A lucid and powerful account."-- Kenneth L. Deutsch , coeditor of Leo Strauss: Political Philosopher and Jewish Thinker and The Crisis of Liberal Democracy, "McAllister traces an American counter-tradition in the work of thinkers for whom modernity was as much tragedy as triumph. An important contribution to our self-understanding as well as to the history of ideas."- Jean Bethke Elshtain , author of Democracy on Trial "A lively, nuanced, and insightful account of the two contemporary giants of political philosophy. Warmly recommended."- Ellis Sandoz , Director, Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies and editor of Eric Voegelin's Significance for the Modern Mind "A beautifully written book that lucidly examines the major works of Strauss and Voegelin for an understanding of the origins and nature of our modern predicament. It is 'must' reading for an appreciation of the theoretical foundations of modern American conservative thought which, as McAllister makes clear, owes so much to these two giants."- George W. Carey , editor of The Political Science Reviewer "This book is fair and thoughtful. There is no ideological distortion in McAllister's readings; he illuminates rather than obscures."- Stanley Rosen , author of The Ancients and the Moderns: Rethinking Modernity "A lucid and powerful account."- Kenneth L. Deutsch , coeditor of Leo Strauss: Political Philosopher and Jewish Thinker and The Crisis of Liberal Democracy, "McAllister traces an American counter-tradition in the work of thinkers for whom modernity was as much tragedy as triumph. An important contribution to our self-understanding as well as to the history of ideas."Jean Bethke Elshtain , author of Democracy on Trial "A lively, nuanced, and insightful account of the two contemporary giants of political philosophy. Warmly recommended."Ellis Sandoz , Director, Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies and editor of Eric Voegelins Significance for the Modern Mind "A beautifully written book that lucidly examines the major works of Strauss and Voegelin for an understanding of the origins and nature of our modern predicament. It is mustreading for an appreciation of the theoretical foundations of modern American conservative thought which, as McAllister makes clear, owes so much to these two giants."George W. Carey , editor of The Political Science Reviewer "This book is fair and thoughtful. There is no ideological distortion in McAllisters readings; he illuminates rather than obscures."Stanley Rosen , author of The Ancients and the Moderns: Rethinking Modernity "A lucid and powerful account."Kenneth L. Deutsch , coeditor of Leo Strauss: Political Philosopher and Jewish Thinker and The Crisis of Liberal Democracy, "McAllister has performed a real service in delineating so clearly the civic dimensions of Strauss's and Voegelin's thought."-- Washington Times "This is a thoughtful book that not only usefully maps out some of the more obscure and neglected territory in twentieth-century intellectual history, but itself constitutes, to some extent, an inquiry into the problems and pathologies of modernity, and of contemporary American conservatism."-- Reviews in American History "McAllister provides an insightful critique of the ambiguities and tensions that divide the modern American conservative movement into mutually antagonistic camps of cultural traditionalists, economic libertarians, and populists."-- Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, "McAllister has performed a real service in delineating so clearly the civic dimensions of Strausss and Voegelins thought."Washington Times "This is a thoughtful book that not only usefully maps out some of the more obscure and neglected territory in twentieth-century intellectual history, but itself constitutes, to some extent, an inquiry into the problems and pathologies of modernity, and of contemporary American conservatism."Reviews in American History "McAllister provides an insightful critique of the ambiguities and tensions that divide the modern American conservative movement into mutually antagonistic camps of cultural traditionalists, economic libertarians, and populists."Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Table of Content
Preface Abbreviations Prologue 1. Labels, Definitions, and Other Forms of Coercion -Labels -The Meanings of Modernity -Eric Voegelin -Leo Strauss 2. Liberal American and Its Discontents -The Problem of Totalitarianism -American and the Liberal Tradition -Liberalism and the Modern World 3. From Philosophy to Positivism 4. The Nature of Modernity -Machiavelli and Chiron -Hegel and the Egophanic Revolt 5. The Crisis of Modernity -The End of Modernity -The Problem with Liberalism: Leo Strauss -The Problem with Liberalism: Eric Voegelin 6. The Philosopher -Plato in Search of Jerusalem -Nature and Natural Right 7. The Mystic -The Discovery of Consciousness -The Structure of Consciousness -A Story Told by God -Philosophy of Politics 8. Strauss, Voegelin, and the Conservative Imagination -The Charms of Strauss and Voegelin -The Conservative Imagination -Strauss, Voegelin, and the Conservatives -The Conservative Predicament Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
95-035016
Dewey Decimal
320.5/2/097309045
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
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