A Review of “Magnanimity and Statesmanship”

ABSTRACT

This article compares Eric Voegelin's contribution to political science to European émigré scholars of the same period: Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Hans Morgenthau, and Leo Strauss. It highlights Voegelin's main contributions to the field, reviews The Eric Voegelin Reader, and how The Reader will help scholars in both the classroom and scholarship.     

Liberation from the Weberian Iron Cage: Pierre Manent on Max Weber

Abstract

In this article I contend that conventional social contract theory is self-referentially incoherent. Conventional contractarianism therefore fails to provide an adequate foundation for the authority of the state and for the obligation of citizens to obey. The insistence on consent for legitimate political authority has usually been rendered in contractarian terms. Thus, the fall of conventional social contract theory seemingly entails that we should reject the principle of consent as well. Yet, the necessity of consent for the authority of the state and, concomitantly, for the obligation of citizens to obey seems to be an entailment of human equality. Thus, insofar as human persons are equal, the legitimacy of the state seems to require a foundation logically precluded to it. We are therefore confronted with a theoretical crisis. Even so, I will argue that we need not reject the principle of consent. The self-referential incoherency of conventional contractarianism results from its conventionalism. We can begin the work of salvaging the principle of consent from the demise of conventional social contract theory by erecting it upon the foundation of moral and ontological realism.     

Guided by the dark: From thanatopsis to thanatourism

Abstract

Death is the one heritage that everyone shares and it has been an element of tourism longer than any other form of heritage. This paper looks at the historical development of Thanatoptic elements in travel and shows how the Dark Tourism to which this issue is devoted can be located within a historical tradition which sheds light on how it should be defined, typified and viewed today     

Reading Tocqueville Today

Abstract

Huber, Evelyne, ed. Models of Capitalism: Lessons for Latin America University Park: Penn State University Press 528 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-271-02176-4 Publication Date: July 2002

United States: Politics and Public Policy Campbell, Andrea Louise How Policies Make Citizens: Senior Political Activism and the American Welfare State Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 256 pp., $39.50, ISBN 0-691-09189-7 Publication Date: August 2003

Ippolito, Dennis S. Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press 329 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-271-02259-0 Publication Date: June 2003

Donahue, John D., and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., eds. For the People? Can We Fix Public Service? Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press 288 pp., $48.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8157-1896-9 cloth ISBN 0-8157-1897-7 paper Publication Date: May 2003

Smith, Michael A. Bringing Representation Home: State Legislators among Their Constituencies Columbia: University of Missouri Press 264 pp: $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1452-5 Publication Date: April 2003

Bergner, Jeffrey T., ed. The Next American Century: Essays in Honor of Richard G. Lugar Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield 272 pp., $27.95, ISBN 0-7425-2788-3 Publication Date: March 2003

Hendrickson, David C. Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas 376 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1237-8 Publication Date: March 2003

Lewis, David E. Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design: Political Insulation in the United States Government Bureaucracy, 1946-1997 Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press 224 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-8047-4588-9 Publication Date: March 2003

Pacelle, Richard L., Jr. Between Law and Politics: The Solicitor General and the Structuring of Race, Gender, and Reproductive Rights Litigation College Station: Texas A&;M University Press 352 pp., $50.00, ISBN 1-58544-234-8 Publication Date: March 2003

Ruth, Henry, and Kevin R. Reitz The Challenge of Crime: Rethinking Our Response Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 384 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00891-X Publication Date: March 2003

Binder, Sarah A. Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution 202 pp., $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8157-0910-2 cloth ISBN 0-8157-0911-0 paper Publication Date: September 2002

Hacker, Jacob S. The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 464 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-521-81288-7 Publication Date: September 2002

Ackerman, Bruce, ed. Bush v. Gore: The Question of Legitimacy New Haven: Yale University Press 256 pp., $26.95, ISBN 0-300-09379-9 Publication Date: June 2002

Musto, David R, and Pamela Korsmeyer The Quest for Drug Control: Politics and Federal Policy in a Period of Increasing Substance Abuse, 1963-1981 New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 256 pp., $40.00, ISBN 0-300-09036-6 Publication Date: June 2002

Killenbeck, Mark R., ed. The Tenth Amendment and State Sovereignty: Constitutional History and Contemporary Issues Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield 206 pp., $28.95, ISBN 0-7425-1880-9 Publication Date: December 2001

United States: Foreign Policy and National Security: Brown, Seyom The Illusion of Control: Force and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press 196 pp., $18.95, ISBN 0-8157-0263-9 Publication Date: April 2003

Wohlforth, William C, ed. Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis, Debates University Park: Penn State University Press 336 pp., $60.00 cloth, $25.00 paper ISBN 0-2710-2237-X cloth ISBN 0-2710-2238-8 paper Publication Date: February 2003

Odom, William E. Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 288 pp., $24.95, ISBN: 0-300-09976-2 Publication Date: Fall 2003

Nichols, Thomas M. Winning the World: Lessons for America's Future from the Cold War Westport, Conn.: Praeger 230 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-275-96663-1 Publication Date: December 2002

Fraser, T. G., and Donette Murray America and the World since 1945 New York: Palgrave Macmillan 323 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-3337-5431-X Publication Date: October 2002

Central and South America: Campbell, Tim The Quiet Revolution: Decentralization and the Rise of Political Participation in Latin American Cities Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 216 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-8229-5796-5 Publication Date: April 2003

Poblete, Juan, ed. Critical Latin American and Latino Studies Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 304 pp., $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8166-4078-5 cloth ISBN 0-8166-4079-3 paper Publication Date: March 2003

Norms and Nannies: The Impact of International Organizations on the Central and East European States Lanham, Md.: Rowman &; Littlefield 448 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-7425-1603-2 Publication Date: October 2002

Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States: March, Luke The Communist Party in Post-Soviet Russia Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press 288 pp., $74.95 cloth, $29.95 paper ISBN 0-7190-6043-5 cloth ISBN 0-7190-6044-3 paper Publication Date: May 2002

Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States: de Nevers, Renee Comrades No More: The Seeds of Change in Eastern Europe Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 320 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-262-54129-7 Publication Date: March 2001

International Relations, Law, and Organizations: Orford, Anne Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law New York: Cambridge University Press 256 pp., $75.00, ISBN 0-521-80464-7 Publication Date: August 2003

DiMento, Joseph The Global Environment and International Law Austin: University of Texas Press 256 pp., $55.00 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-292-71620-6 cloth ISBN 0-292-71624-9 paper Publication Date: May 2003

Sokalski, Henryk J. An Ounce of Prevention: Macedonia and the UN Experience in Preventive Diplomacy Washington, D.C.: U.S. Institute of Peace Press 334 pp., $17.50, ISBN 1-929223-46-3 Publication Date: May 2003

Dichter, Thomas W. Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World Has Failed Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press 320 pp., $70.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 1-55849-392-1 cloth ISBN 1-55849-393-X paper Publication Date: Fall 2003

Zegveld, Liesbeth Accountability of Armed Opposition Groups in International Law Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 260 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-521-81130-9 Publication Date: May 2002

Jordan, William R., III The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature Berkeley: University of California Press 270 pp., $27.50, ISBN 0-520-23320-4 Publication Date: June 2003

Neusner, Jacob, ed. God's Rule: The Politics of World Religions Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press 272 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-87840-910-6 Publication Date: June 2003

Friedman, Jonathan, ed. Globalization, the State, and Violence Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press 352 pp., $75.00 cloth, $29.95 paper ISBN 0-7591-0280-5 cloth ISBN 0-7591-0281-3 paper Publication Date: April 2003

Harper, Joseph, and Thom Yantek, eds. Media, Profit, and Politics: Competing Priorities in an Open Society Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press 298 pp., $22.00, ISBN 0-87338-754-6 Publication Date: April 2003

Klosko, George Jacobins and Utopians: The Political Theory of Fundamental Moral Reform Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press 200 pp., $35.00 cloth, $17.00 paper ISBN 0-268-03257-2 cloth ISBN 0-268-03258-0 paper Publication Date: March 2003

Behnegar, Nasser Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics Chicago: University of Chicago Press 216 pp., $30.00, ISBN 0-226-04142-5 Publication Date: February 2003

Keenan, Alan Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure Stanford: Stanford University Press 288 pp., $49.50, ISBN 0-8047-3747-9 Publication Date: February 2003

Shapiro, Ian The Moral Foundations of Politics New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 288 pp., $25.00, ISBN 0-300-07907-9 Publication Date: February 2003

Theory and Methodology: Smith, Kimberly K. Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition: A Common Grace Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 288 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1230-0 Publication Date: February 2003

Bruner, M. Lane Strategies of Remembrance: The Rhetorical Dimensions of National Identity Construction Columbia: University of South Carolina Press 143 pp., $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-469-9 Publication Date: November 2002

Leege, David C, Kenneth D. Wald, Brian S. Krueger, and Paul D. Mueller The Politics of Cultural Differences: Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 304pp., $60.00 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-691-09152-8 cloth ISBN 0-691-09153-6 paper Publication Date: October 2002     

Sentire Cum Brownsone: “Brownson’s Political Philosophy,Republican and Christian”

Abstract

Sentire cum Brownsone provides an exposition of the political philosophy of Orestes Brownson (1803–1876). Negatively, his disagreements with modern social contract theory and its underlying anthropology are laid out, while positively, his key concepts – the unwritten constitution, territorial democracy, and the American Republic – are unpacked. His thinking about the complex relationship between Christianity and America's constitutional order is also highlighted.