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Book Review: The End of the West: The Once and Future Europe by David Marquand 23 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
Book Review: Political Philosophy versus History? Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought: Jonathan Floyd and Marc Stears, E... 23 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
Democratical Gentlemen and the Lust for Mastery: Status, Ambition, and the Language of Liberty in Hobbes's Political Thought 23 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
Neorepublican treatments of Hobbes argue that his conception of liberty was deliberately developed to counter a revived and Roman-rooted republican theory of liberty. In doing so, Hobbes rejects repub...
Political Corruption and the Concept of Dependence in Republican Thought 23 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
The concept of dependence is central both to the study of modern republicanism and to the study of systemic corruption. Recently, Lawrence Lessig has described American politics as suffering from "dep...
Labor Republicanism and the Transformation of Work 23 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
In the nineteenth century a group of "labor republicans" argued that the system of wage-labor should be replaced by a system of cooperative production. This system of cooperative production would real...
The Carolinian Context of John Locke's Theory of Slavery 23 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
The debate over Locke’s theory of slavery has focused on his involvement with the Royal African Company and other institutions of African slavery, as well as his rhetorical use of slavery in opposing ...
Little Rock's Social Question: Reading Arendt on School Desegregation and Social Climbing 23 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
This essay interprets Hannah Arendt’s concept of the "social question" through a reading of her controversial essay "Reflections on Little Rock." I argue that Arendt’s social question refers to social...
In Defense of Rhetoric: Or How Hard It Is to Take a Writer Seriously: The Case of Nietzsche 23 Aug 2013 | 03:07 pm
Interpretations of Nietzsche, particularly about politics, cover an exceptionally wide range. Additionally, Nietzsche is often said to commit "rhetorical excesses." I argue and show that Nietzsche con...
