Reason, Faith, and Politics Essays in Honor of Werner J. Dannhauser

by Melzer, Arthur M.; Kraynak, Robert P.; Arkush, Alan; Berns, Walter; Fukuyama, Francis; Goldstein, Leslie Friedman; Hinchman, Lew; Kraynak, Robert; Lerner, Ralph; Melzer, Arthur; Rabkin, Jeremy; Shapiro, William

• ISBN13: 9780739118351
• ISBN10: 0739118358
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Behind many of the hottest political issues of the current moment-abortion, stem-cell research, Intelligent Design, Islamic fundamentalism-stands a resurgence of the centuries-old contest between religion and the Enlightenment.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Reason: The Basis of Society or a Danger to Society?
On the Inherent Tension between Reason and Society	p. 9
Dispersal by Design: The Author's Choice	p. 29
Liberalism Before Disenchantment: Why Jean Bodin Advocated Witch Hunting	p. 43
Nietzsche and the Pre-Socratics	p. 77
Nietzsche on the Death of God and the Eternal Feminine	p. 95
Faith: The Role of Religion in Political Authority
Christianity and American Democracy: Harmony or Hostility?	p. 109
Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and the Jewish Religion	p. 123
Geopolitics and Israel's Permanent Crisis	p. 147
Politics: Constitutionalism and Foreign Policy in Liberal Democracies
A Brief History of Neoconservative Foreign Policy	p. 161
The Rule of Law and the European Union	p. 189
Ancients and Moderns: The Emergence of Modern Constitutionalism	p. 207
Index	p. 219
About the Contributors	p. 225
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