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Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Catherine H. Zuckert
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In this issue we are proud to present eight essays celebrating the lives and works of some of the most pre-eminent political philosophers who wrote in the twentieth century. These essays are authored, moreover, by some of these philosophers' most distinguished students. Their readings can and, no doubt, will be contested; it is characteristic of political philosophy that its materials – textual as well as phenomenological – are subjects of debate.

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The Review of Politics , Volume 71 , Issue 1 , Winter 2009 , pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 2009

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1 Fott, David is the author of John Dewey: America's Philosopher of Democracy (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998)Google Scholar.

2 See, for example, Strauss's, Leo review of John Dewey's German Philosophy and Politics (New York: Putnam, 1942)Google Scholar, in What Is Political Philosophy? and Other Studies (Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1959), 279–81, and Arendt, Hannah, Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1968)Google Scholar.

3 Villa, Dana is the author of Arendt and Heidegger (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996)Google Scholar and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Arendt (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000) as well as Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999). Smith, Steven B. is author of Reading Strauss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar and editor of a forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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5 Galston, William A. is the author of Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Chapter 5 deals explicitly with the liberalism of Isaiah Berlin. Fuller, Timothy has edited and written introductions to several collections of Oakeshott's essays: Religion, Politics and the Moral Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)Google Scholar, Rationalism in Politics, a new and expanded edition (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1991), On History and other essays, a new edition (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1999), The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001).

6 Weithman, Paul J. is the editor (along with Henry S. Richardson) of The Philosophy of Rawls: A Collection of Essays (New York: Garland Press, 1999)Google Scholar, 5 vols. Having himself studied with Rawls at Harvard, Weithman, also wrote “John Rawls: A Remembrance,” Review of Politics 65, no. 1 (Winter 2003): 5–10CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at the time of his death.

7 “What Is Political Philosophy?” 17.

8 Pierre Manent, “The Fate and Meaning of Political Philosophy in Our Century,” lecture given 9 June 1999 to the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. (Selection to be found at http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/frontiersexcerpts.html.)

9 Strauss, Leo, “What Can We Learn From Political Theory?” The Review of Politics 69, no. 4 (2007): 515–16Google Scholar.