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    Review of Juergen Habermas: The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol. 1, 'Reason and the Rationalization of Society'[REVIEW]Steven B. Smith - 1986 - Ethics 96 (3):638-641.
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    Review of Hannah Arendt: Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy[REVIEW]Steven B. Smith - 1984 - Ethics 94 (3):531-534.
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    Hegel's critique of liberalism: rights in context.Steven B. Smith - 1989 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    In Hegel's Critique of Liberalism , Steven B. Smith examines Hegel's critique of rights-based liberalism and its relevance to contemporary political concerns. Smith argues that Hegel reformulated classic liberalism, preserving what was of value while rendering it more attentive to the dynamics of human history and the developmental structure of the moral personality. Hegel's goal, Smith suggests, was to find a way of incorporating both the ancient emphasis on the dignity and even architectonic character of political life with the modern (...)
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  4. Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism: Rights in Context.Steven B. SMITH - 1989 - Studies in Soviet Thought 41 (1):79-82.
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    Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity.Steven B. Smith - 1997 - Yale University Press.
    Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677)--often recognized as the first modern Jewish thinker--was also a founder of modern liberal political philosophy. This book is the first to connect systematically these two aspects of Spinoza's legacy. Steven B. Smith shows that Spinoza was a politically engaged theorist who both advocated and embodied a new conception of the emancipated individual, a thinker who decisively influenced such diverse movements as the Enlightenment, liberalism, and political Zionism. Focusing on Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise, Smith argues that Spinoza was (...)
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    Spinoza’s Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics.Steven B. Smith - 2003 - Yale University Press.
    Most readers of Spinoza treat him as a pure metaphysician, a grim determinist, or a stoic moralist, but none of these descriptions captures the author of the _Ethics, _argues Steven B. Smith in this intriguing book. Offering a new reading of Spinoza’s masterpiece, Smith asserts that the Ethics is a celebration of human freedom and its attendant joys and responsibilities and should be placed among the great founding documents of the Enlightenment. Two aspects of Smith’s book distinguish it from other (...)
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    What Kind of Democrat was Spinoza?Steven B. Smith - 2005 - Political Theory 33 (1):6-27.
    Spinoza's Ethics is rarely read as a work of political theory. Its formidable geometric structure and its author's commitment to a kind of metaphysical determinism do not seem promising materials from which to fashion a theory of democratic self-government. Yet impressions can mislead. A close reading of the Ethics reveals it to be an impassioned, deeply political book. Its aim is not only to liberate the individualfrom false beliefs and systems of power but also to enable us to act in (...)
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    Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism.Steven B. Smith - 2007 - University of Chicago Press.
    Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, though, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high priest of neoconservatism but as a friend of liberal democracy—perhaps the best defender democracy has ever had. Moreover, in _Reading Leo Strauss, _Smith shows that Strauss’s defense of liberal democracy was closely connected to his skepticism of both the extreme (...)
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    The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin.Joshua L. Cherniss & Steven B. Smith (eds.) - 2018 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Isaiah Berlin was a central figure in twentieth-century political thought. This volume highlights Berlin's significance for contemporary readers, covering not only his writings on liberty and liberalism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, Russian thinkers and pluralism, but also the implications of his thought for political theory, history, and the social sciences, as well as the ethical challenges confronting political actors, and the nature and importance of practical judgment for politics and scholarship. His name and work are inseparable from the revival of (...)
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    Meaning and negation.Steven Bradley Smith - 1975 - The Hague: Mouton.
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    Review of Charles Taylor: Hegel and Modern Society[REVIEW]Steven B. Smith - 1979. - Ethics 92 (4):764-765.
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  12. Logic and Politics: Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.Peter J. Steinberger & Steven B. Smith - 1988 - Ethics 100 (2):424-426.
     
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    Reading Althusser: an essay on structural Marxism.Steven B. Smith - 1984 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
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    Review of George Kateb: Hannah Arendt, politics, conscience, evil[REVIEW]Steven B. Smith - 1985 - Ethics 95 (2):362-364.
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    Modernity and its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois From Machiavelli to Bellow.Steven B. Smith - 2016 - Yale University Press.
    Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project’s most powerful defenders and critics—from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin—this provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective (...)
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  16. Leo Strauss: The Outlines of a Life.Steven B. Smith - 2009 - In The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss. Cambridge University Press. pp. 13--40.
     
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    Notes.Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. pp. 259-270.
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  18. Leo Strauss’s discovery of the theologico-political problem.Steven Benjamin Smith - 2013 - European Journal of Political Theory 12 (4):388-408.
    Leo Strauss once called the theologico-political problem ‘the theme of my investigations’ from the 1920s on. What justified this remark is by no means obvious. This article examines the origins of Strauss’s concern with political theology in his earliest writings on Zionism and Jewish thought during the Weimar period. Here we see Strauss, at the outset of his career as a young Zionist committed to a programme of political atheism, slowly begin to develop the idea that the conflict between unbelief (...)
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    Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism.Steven B. Smith - 2006 - University of Chicago Press.
    Interest in Leo Strauss is greater now than at any time since his death, mostly because of the purported link between his thought and the political movement known as neoconservatism. Steven B. Smith, though, surprisingly depicts Strauss not as the high priest of neoconservatism but as a friend of liberal democracy—perhaps the best defender democracy has ever had. Moreover, in _Reading Leo Strauss, _Smith shows that Strauss’s defense of liberal democracy was closely connected to his skepticism of both the extreme (...)
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    Hegel's Idea of a Critical Theory.Steven B. Smith - 1987 - Political Theory 15 (1):99-126.
  21. Philosophy as a way of life : the case of Leo Strauss.Steven B. Smith - 2011 - In Catherine H. Zuckert (ed.), Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Authors and Arguments. Cambridge University Press.
  22. Brill Online Books and Journals.Alon Goshen Gottstein, Steven B. Smith, Gary Smith, Shaul Magid & Esther J. Ehrman - 1995 - Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 4 (2).
     
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    Claude Lévi-Strauss Social Psychotherapy and the Collective Unconscious.Steven B. Smith - 1979
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  24. Destruktion or Recovery? Leo Strauss's Critique of Heidegger.Steven B. Smith - 1997 - Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
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  25. Preface.Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press.
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    Political philosophy.Steven B. Smith - 2012 - New Haven: Yale University Press.
    Preface -- Why political philosophy? -- Antigone and the politics of conflict -- Socrates and the examined life -- Plato on justice and the human good -- Aristotle's science of regime politics -- The politics of the Bible -- Machiavelli and the art of political founding -- Hobbes's new science of politics -- Locke and the art of constitutional government -- Rousseau on civilization and its discontents -- Tocqueville and the dilemmas of democracy -- In defense of patriotism.
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    Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes.Steven B. Smith - 2021 - Yale University Press.
    _A rediscovery of patriotism as a virtue in line with the core values of democracy in an extremist age__ “Like you perhaps, I still regard myself as an extremely patriotic person. Which is why I so admired [this book].... __It explained my emotion to me, as it might yours to you." —David Brooks, _New York Times___ “Smith superbly illuminates the distinctiveness of the American idea of patriotism and reminds us of how important patriotism is, and how essential to making America (...)
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  28. Texts.Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press.
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  29. The State by Philip PETTIT (review).Steven B. Smith - 2023 - Review of Metaphysics 77 (1):159-161.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The State by Philip PETTITSteven B. SmithPETTIT, Philip. The State. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. Cloth, $39.95The dust-jacket of this book announces a bold claim: “The future of our species depends on the state.” Ever since the Treaty of Westphalia, the state has been regarded as the basic unit of political legitimacy, and yet the state has never ceased to have its critics. From the (...)
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    Hegel and Modern Society. Charles Taylor.Steven B. Smith - 1982 - Ethics 92 (4):764-765.
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    Secularization and Its Discontents: The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures, by Ananda Abeysekara. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian, by Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2008. Secularisms, edited by Janet Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009. Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11, by Andrew R. Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. [REVIEW]Steven B. Smith - 2011 - Political Theory 39 (2):276 - 287.
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    A Response to John Wallach.Steven B. Smith - 2001 - Political Theory 29 (3):430-431.
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    7. Machiavelli and the Art of Political Founding.Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. pp. 109-139.
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    12. In Defense of Patriotism.Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. pp. 243-258.
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    The Cambridge companion to Leo Strauss.Steven B. Smith (ed.) - 2009 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The essays of The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss provide a comprehensive and non-partisan survey of the major themes and problems that constituted Strauss's work.
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    Destruktion or Recovery?: Leo Strauss’s Critique of Heidegger.Steven B. Smith - 1997 - Review of Metaphysics 51 (2):345 - 377.
    OF THE NUMEROUS LEGACIES BEQUEATHED BY LEO STRAUSS, his influence on the study of German philosophy frequently goes least mentioned. Apart from some early reviews and other occasional pieces, Strauss left no major work on any German thinker. With the exception of the chapter on Max Weber in Natural Right and History and a short essay on Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil written near the end of his life, there are no works on such giants of the German Aufklärung as (...)
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    Hannah Arendt: Politics, Conscience, Evil. George Kateb.Steven B. Smith - 1985 - Ethics 95 (2):362-364.
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    10. Rousseau on Civilization and Its Discontents.Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. pp. 189-213.
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    The Rise and Fall of Structural Marxism: Althusser and His InfluenceReading Althusser: An Essay on Structural Marxism.Gary Hentzi, Ted Benton & Steven B. Smith - 1987 - Substance 16 (1):84.
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    1. Why Political Philosophy?Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. pp. 1-9.
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    Book Review: Philosophy between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing, by Arthur MelzerPhilosophy between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing, by MelzerArthur. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, 453 pp. [REVIEW]Steven B. Smith - 2015 - Political Theory 43 (2):271-275.
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    Isaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss: Notes Toward a Dialogue.Steven B. Smith - 2020 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 32 (4):539-555.
    ABSTRACT Berlin and Strauss shared surprisingly compatible views about four matters of great importance. The first is the need for political philosophy, which Berlin traced to value pluralism and Strauss to the inherent incompleteness and contestability of our knowledge of politics, due to its comprehensive nature. Second, Berlin and Strauss each opposed social-scientific positivism: Berlin, because it contradicts human freedom and responsibility; Strauss, because it depends on an untenable and nihilistic distinction between facts and values. Third, both philosophers wished to (...)
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    Destruktion or Recovery?: Leo Strauss’s Critique of Heidegger.Steven B. Smith - 1997 - Review of Metaphysics 51 (2):345-377.
    OF THE NUMEROUS LEGACIES BEQUEATHED BY LEO STRAUSS, his influence on the study of German philosophy frequently goes least mentioned. Apart from some early reviews and other occasional pieces, Strauss left no major work on any German thinker. With the exception of the chapter on Max Weber in Natural Right and History and a short essay on Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil written near the end of his life, there are no works on such giants of the German Aufklärung as (...)
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    Drury's Strauss and Mine.Steven B. Smith - 2007 - Political Theory 35 (1):68-72.
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    8. Hobbes’s New Science of Politics.Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. pp. 140-164.
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    2. Antigone and the Politics of Conflict.Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. pp. 10-19.
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    3. Socrates and the Examined Life.Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. pp. 20-36.
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    6. The Politics of the Bible.Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. pp. 89-108.
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    Marx's Ethics of Freedom. [REVIEW]Steven B. Smith - 1984 - Review of Metaphysics 38 (1):115-116.
    The problem confronting any book on Marxist ethics is that Marx routinely ridiculed moral language as a species of ideology and those who used it as either self-deceived utopians or cynical apologists for the status quo. The discovery of historical materialism was for him both a principle of explanation or causation and a surrogate for moral norms. These difficulties notwithstanding, George G. Brenkert has written a lucid and intelligent book that tries to establish an ethical foundation for Marxism. The work (...)
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    9. Locke and the Art of Constitutional Government.Steven B. Smith - 2017 - In Political Philosophy. Yale University Press. pp. 165-188.
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