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books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed,
and some few to be chewed and digested;
that is, some books are to be read only in parts;
others to be read, but not curiously;
and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Read not to contradict and confuse;
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
~Francis Bacon (Essay 50, "Of Studies")
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Aristotle and Modern
Politics: The Persistence of Political Philosophy, edited
volume.
Notre Dame University Press, 2002
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more about this book]
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Reading Aristotle's Ethics: Virtue,
Rhetoric, and Political Philosophy.
SUNY Press, July 1996
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Current Book Project: The Roots of
Contemporary Politics, project description available
upon request.
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Refereed Publications
"The Competition Paradigm and Modern Politics,"
in Competition in Theory and Practice:
A Mulidisciplinary Analysis edited by Worthen, Henderson,
Rasmussen an Benson, Sense Publications, 2009: 97-109
“Political Theology and the Theological-Political
Problem,” Perspectives in Political
Science, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Winter 2009): 5-12
“Socrates, Nietzsche and European Identity,” (expanded
version of paper given at the biennial conference of the ISSEI)
in Reason or Unreason as the Foundation of
European Identity edited by Ann Ward, Cambridge Scholars
Press, 2007
“Socrates or Nietzsche: Reflections on European Identity,”
in The European Mind:
Narrative and Identity edited by Henry Frendo, Proceedings
of the 10th Conference of the International Society for the Study
of European Identity, forthcoming
“Tocqueville and Gobineau on the Nature of Modern Politics,”
Review of Politics, Vol.
67:4 (Fall 2005)
“Tocqueville on the Incommensurability of America’s
Founding Principles,” in
Democracy and its Friendly Critics: Tocqueville and American
Political Life Today
edited by Peter Augustine Lawler, Lexington Books, 2004
“The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson,” in
The History of American Political Thought, edited by
Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga, Lexington Books, 2003
“Justice, Politics, and Piety in Sophocles’ Philoctetes,”
Review of Politics, Vol.
65:1,
Winter 2003
“Tocqueville on the Natural State of Religion in the Age
of Democracy,” Journal of
Politics, Vol. 64, No. 4, November 2002
“Aristotle and MacIntyre on the Foundation of Virtue,”
in Aristotle and Modern
Politics: The Persistence of Political Philosophy, Notre
Dame University Press, 2002
“Socrates in Aristotle’s Philosophy of Human Affairs,”
in Action and Contemplation:
Studies in the Moral and Political Thought of Aristotle,
edited by Robert Bartlett and Susan Collins, SUNY Press, 1999
"Courage and Comedy in Plato's Laches," Journal
of Politics, February 1994
"Aristotle's Ambiguous Account of the Best Life," Polity,
Winter 1992
"Euripides' Medea and the Problem of Spiritedness,"
Review of Politics, Fall 1991
"Making the City Safe for Philosophy: Nicomachean Ethics,
Book X," American
Political Science Review, December 1990
"Plato's Lysis: An Introduction to Philosophic Friendship,"
Southern Journal of
Philosophy, Spring 1990
"A Political Reading of Aristotle's Treatment of Pleasure
in the Nicomachean Ethics," Political
Theory, May 1989
"Aristotle's Political Presentation of Socrates in the Nicomachean
Ethics,"
Interpretation, Fall 1988
Book
Reviews
Review esssay of Robert Faulkner, The
Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and its Critics (New
Haven and London: Yale 2007) in Polis:
The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought, Vol.
26, No. 2 (Fall 2009): forthcoming
Lenn E. Goodman and Robert B. Talisse, ed.,
Aristotle’s Politics Today
in Polis: The
Journal for Greek Political Thought, Vol. 25, No.1
(Spring 2008): 163-167
Christopher Wolfe, Natural Law Liberalism
in Perspectives on Politics,
Vol. 5, No. 3
(September 2007): 622-623
Josiah Ober, Athenian Legacies: Essays
on the Politics of Going On Together in Journal
of Political Science, 34 (2006): 164-167
T. W. Smith’s Revaluing Ethics:
Aristotle’s Dialectical Pedagogy in The
Classical
Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, 2004
Sheldon Wolin’s Tocqueville Between
Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and
Theoretical Life in the
Journal of Politics, Vol.
64, No. 4, November 2002
John Wallach’s The Platonic Political
Art in the American Political
Science Review,
September 2002
Charles Segal's Sophocles' Tragic World:
Divinity, Nature, Society in The
Review of Politics, Fall 1997
Fred Miller's Nature, Justice, and Rights
in Aristotle's Politics in The
Journal of
Politics, November 1996
"Aristotle on the Serious Life," a review of Francis
Sparshott's, Taking Life Seriously:
A Study of the Argument of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
in Review of Politics, Winter
1996
"Aristotle and Modern Liberalism," a review essay of
Mary Nichols, Statesmen and
Citizens: A Study of Aristotle's Politics;
Stephen Salkever, Finding the Mean:
Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy;
Judith Swanson, The Public and
the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy in
Polity, Summer 1993
"Plato as Teacher," a review of James A. Arieti's Interpreting
Plato: The Dialogues as Drama,
in Review of Politics, Winter
1993
Richard Kraut's Aristotle on the Human
Good, in Interpretation,
Spring 1992
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The Roots of Contemporary Politics, Aristide
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