Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1017/s0034670522000766
R. Wyllie
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1017/s0034670522000614
Colin Koopman
{"title":"Stuart Elden: The Early Foucault. (Cambridge: Polity, 2021. Pp. xiv, 281.)","authors":"Colin Koopman","doi":"10.1017/s0034670522000614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034670522000614","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52549,"journal":{"name":"Review of Politics","volume":"84 1","pages":"653 - 656"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48742475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1017/s0034670522000602
R. G. Rodríguez
in turn must go down to live in the common dwelling place of the others. . . . And because you’ve seen the truth about fine, just, and good things, you’ll know each image for what it is” (Rep. 520b–c). Leaders like Nelson Mandela, who exhibited the principles of the weaver model, understand that their experience of justice and forgiveness obligates them to teach and lead others. Also, leaders with similar training may be motivated to step forward so that “someone worse” than themselves will not rule them (Rep. 347c). This brief account of leadershipmotivation could help leaders choose a more appropriate leadership model for their circumstances. Overall, the book offers a practical and accessible account of how Plato’s ancient leadership models can inform and guide today’s leaders. The leader exemplars presented with each model add a depth and personal connection for readers who are facing similar business, technological, and political challenges. Leaders are reminded that they are not alone, but are part of a historical line of leaders who were motivated to shape a more just, healthy, and inclusive world.
{"title":"Aaron L. Herold: The Democratic Soul: Spinoza, Tocqueville, and Enlightenment Theology. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. Pp. ix, 241.)","authors":"R. G. Rodríguez","doi":"10.1017/s0034670522000602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034670522000602","url":null,"abstract":"in turn must go down to live in the common dwelling place of the others. . . . And because you’ve seen the truth about fine, just, and good things, you’ll know each image for what it is” (Rep. 520b–c). Leaders like Nelson Mandela, who exhibited the principles of the weaver model, understand that their experience of justice and forgiveness obligates them to teach and lead others. Also, leaders with similar training may be motivated to step forward so that “someone worse” than themselves will not rule them (Rep. 347c). This brief account of leadershipmotivation could help leaders choose a more appropriate leadership model for their circumstances. Overall, the book offers a practical and accessible account of how Plato’s ancient leadership models can inform and guide today’s leaders. The leader exemplars presented with each model add a depth and personal connection for readers who are facing similar business, technological, and political challenges. Leaders are reminded that they are not alone, but are part of a historical line of leaders who were motivated to shape a more just, healthy, and inclusive world.","PeriodicalId":52549,"journal":{"name":"Review of Politics","volume":"84 1","pages":"642 - 645"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43552161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0034670522000560
Nazmul S. Sultan
Abstract Gandhi famously shook the foundations of the British Empire and sparked the beginning of a new anti-imperial era. But his critique of empire does not quite fit the familiar script of twentieth-century anti-imperialism. Gandhi's positions ranged from sincere expressions of imperial loyalty to a condemnation of English civilization while endorsing its moral empire, to an unqualified disavowal of the Britsh Empire without necessarily claiming independence. Reconstructing the long arc of his (anti-)imperial thought, this article shows that the idea of empire operated in the early Gandhi's thought in two ways: as the authorizing source of the rights of Indians and as the addressee of political claims. This genealogy helps explain the complex trajectory of his two separate breaks from empire. The article ultimately suggests that the key to understanding the global resonance of Gandhi's ideas lies in his transformation of the imperial adversary into a universal addressee of action.
{"title":"Moral Empire and the Global Meaning of Gandhi's Anti-imperialism","authors":"Nazmul S. Sultan","doi":"10.1017/S0034670522000560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670522000560","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Gandhi famously shook the foundations of the British Empire and sparked the beginning of a new anti-imperial era. But his critique of empire does not quite fit the familiar script of twentieth-century anti-imperialism. Gandhi's positions ranged from sincere expressions of imperial loyalty to a condemnation of English civilization while endorsing its moral empire, to an unqualified disavowal of the Britsh Empire without necessarily claiming independence. Reconstructing the long arc of his (anti-)imperial thought, this article shows that the idea of empire operated in the early Gandhi's thought in two ways: as the authorizing source of the rights of Indians and as the addressee of political claims. This genealogy helps explain the complex trajectory of his two separate breaks from empire. The article ultimately suggests that the key to understanding the global resonance of Gandhi's ideas lies in his transformation of the imperial adversary into a universal addressee of action.","PeriodicalId":52549,"journal":{"name":"Review of Politics","volume":"84 1","pages":"545 - 569"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43604377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.1017/s0034670522000638
David C. Bauman
{"title":"Dominic Scott and R. Edward Freeman: Models of Leadership in Plato and Beyond. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. 225.)","authors":"David C. Bauman","doi":"10.1017/s0034670522000638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034670522000638","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52549,"journal":{"name":"Review of Politics","volume":"84 1","pages":"640 - 642"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46400059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1017/S0034670522000584
David J. Riesbeck
ity.” She asks: “Will this hope prove more solid than Priam’s, or is it, like his, a child of the inability to come to terms with the inescapable limits mortality imposes on us?” (233). Pangle nevertheless concludes on amore positive note. By her book’s end, the wholeness possible through philosophy becomesmore transcendent, and in her final word on the matter, Pangle finds Aristotle teaching that, however much we ought to make our home in the world, “we are right to divine that what is the very best in us somehow transcends, somehow must transcend this plane. . . .We can be true to ourselves only when we strive, in one such way or another, to reach the divine” (275). In the end, does Aristotle counsel against religious pursuit? Is the highest life incompatible with hope for what is beyond our human limits? Or is the deep desire for the divine that we hear in St. Augustine’s cry in fact part and parcel of the philosophic life?
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Pub Date : 2022-08-18DOI: 10.1017/S0034670522000651
Timothy Brennan
Abstract Building on studies by Thomas L. Pangle and Robert C. Bartlett, this article contends that Montesquieu's rhetorical moderation with respect to religion in The Spirit of the Laws serves a substantively radical project, that is, the gradual diminution of religious devotion through the spread of liberal-commercial civilization. Taking up the major passages of praise for religion in general and for Christianity in particular, I examine the strategy that allows Montesquieu to claim the mantle of moderation in spite of his radicalism on this crucial issue: allowing his prominently advertised positions to be undercut by his own historical observations and comparisons, and thus teaching by contradictions. I also argue that, notwithstanding his claim to be treating faith merely from a practical point of view, Montesquieu offers a theoretical challenge to revealed religion.
{"title":"Teaching by Contradictions: Montesquieu's Subversion of Piety in The Spirit of the Laws","authors":"Timothy Brennan","doi":"10.1017/S0034670522000651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670522000651","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Building on studies by Thomas L. Pangle and Robert C. Bartlett, this article contends that Montesquieu's rhetorical moderation with respect to religion in The Spirit of the Laws serves a substantively radical project, that is, the gradual diminution of religious devotion through the spread of liberal-commercial civilization. Taking up the major passages of praise for religion in general and for Christianity in particular, I examine the strategy that allows Montesquieu to claim the mantle of moderation in spite of his radicalism on this crucial issue: allowing his prominently advertised positions to be undercut by his own historical observations and comparisons, and thus teaching by contradictions. I also argue that, notwithstanding his claim to be treating faith merely from a practical point of view, Montesquieu offers a theoretical challenge to revealed religion.","PeriodicalId":52549,"journal":{"name":"Review of Politics","volume":"84 1","pages":"520 - 544"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46492690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1017/s0034670522000420
Bryan M. Santin
{"title":"Melissa M. Matthes: When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. Pp. viii, 428.)","authors":"Bryan M. Santin","doi":"10.1017/s0034670522000420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034670522000420","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52549,"journal":{"name":"Review of Politics","volume":"84 1","pages":"492 - 494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43633469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-17DOI: 10.1017/S0034670522000547
G. McBrayer
Xenophon's reputation as a thinker of the highest order has been rehabilitated thanks principally to the work of Leo Strauss, his students, and his students’ students in political theory. Evidence of Xenophon's rehabilitated reputation is also the recent growth in Xenophon studies in academic fields outside political theory—classics, history, and philosophy—by scholars who are unaffiliated with Strauss, some of whom are even deeply critical of him, among them Paul Cartledge, Louis-André Dorion, Vivienne Gray, and Christopher Tuplin. There is also the success of the Landmark editions of Xenophon's Hellenika and Anabasis. To this growing body of scholarly literature, three monographs devoted to Xenophon's Socratic writings are now added. Thomas Pangle has written two excellent books, The Socratic Way of Life: Xenophon's “Memorabilia” and Socrates Founding Political Philosophy in Xenophon's “Economist,” “Symposium,” and “Apology.” Additionally, Dustin Sebell has written a penetrating analysis of Book IV of Xenophon's Memorabilia, titled Xenophon's Socratic Education: Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-17DOI: 10.1017/s0034670522000481
D. Hammer
{"title":"Eric O. Springsted: Simone Weil for the Twenty-First Century. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. Pp. xxi, 260.)","authors":"D. Hammer","doi":"10.1017/s0034670522000481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034670522000481","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52549,"journal":{"name":"Review of Politics","volume":"84 1","pages":"489 - 492"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46473763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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