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Introduction: Political Philosophy; Is There a Future Tradition? | p. 1 |
Modern Constructivism or Phenomenology | |
Preface to Part 1: Modernity and Its Closure | p. 13 |
The "End of History" or a Portal to the Future: Does Anything Lie Beyond Late Modernity? | p. 17 |
What Is Political Philosophy: A Phenomenological Approach | p. 37 |
Machiavelli's The Prince and the Essence of Modernity | p. 65 |
Phenomenology or Constructivism: Robert Pippin's Modernity | p. 85 |
Cacophony or Silence: Derrida's Deconstructionism and the Possibility of Political Philosophy | p. 107 |
Leo Strauss and the Tradition; an Engagement | |
Preface to Part 2: Remembrance and Tradition | p. 147 |
Who Was Leo Strauss? | p. 151 |
Leo Strauss and the Straussians: An Anti-Democratic Cult? | p. 167 |
Athens and Washington: Leo Strauss and the American Regime | p. 187 |
On a Possible Epicurean Garden for Philosophy: Philosophy and the City in the Thought of Leo Strauss | p. 215 |
On Cropsey's World: Joseph Cropsey and the Tradition of Political Philosophy | p. 249 |
On the Tradition of Political Philosophy in the Future: Leo Strauss and Martin Heidegger | p. 279 |
The Non-Metaphysical Plato: Second Beginnings? | |
Preface to Part 3: Plato, Platonism, and a Second Beginning | p. 307 |
Dialogue and Dialectic in Plato's Phaedo: Plato as Metaphysician, Epistomologist, Ontologist and Political Philosopher | p. 313 |
Political Philosophy and Eros: Plato's Socrates in the Symposium | p. 337 |
Plato's Parmenides: Socratism and the Origins of Platonic Political Philosophy | p. 371 |
Between Platonism and Postmodernism: Plato's Emendation of Socratism in the Trilogy | p. 397 |
Aristotle on Reason and Its Limits | p. 433 |
Political Philosophy After Modernity? | |
Preface to Part 4: Openings Toward the Postmodern | p. 471 |
Legitimacy, International Morality and the Postmodern Global Future | p. 475 |
Jerusalem and Washington: Political Philosophy and Theology | p. 501 |
Ontology, Technology, Poetry or Mandarin Pastime? Theoretical Physics in the Postmodern Age | p. 529 |
The Queen of the Sciences: Political Philosophy or Biology? | p. 559 |
Political Philosophy and Environmentalism: Recovering the Phenomenon "Nature" | p. 589 |
Conclusion: Is There a Future? | p. 617 |
Index | p. 633 |
About the Author | p. 657 |
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