Peter Augustine Lawler
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 697777 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Augustine Lawler |
| NOMBRES | Peter Augustine |
| APELLIDO | Lawler |
| FIRMA | LAWLER P A |
| AFILIACIONES | Berry College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 82 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
International Relations Theories
A comprehensive introduction to international relations theories which aids understanding of their purpose and function. Readers are introduced to each IR theory and asked to consider its social, political, and historical context. Pedagogical features help students to critically assess their assumptions and apply IR theory to global issues.
Constructivism And International Relations
This chapter focuses on constructivism relates it to international relations (IR). The core argument of the constructivist perspective revolves around the idea that the world people find themselves in is socially constructed rather than simply given. Moreover, constructivism underscores the ideational aspects of international politics. The chapter compares this to the predominantly materialist explanations offered by mainstream IR theory. The cha…
Higher Education as an American Counterculture
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity
Roger Scruton's Conservatism
The English philosopher Roger Scruton calls himself a functional anthropologist. That means he defends the lifeworld—the relational, moral world in which we all must live—against the educated derision of the monstrous entity often called the self-conscious intellectual or elitist cosmopolitan. My focus here is to examine Scruton's defense of the nation—as the civilized mean between xenophobia and oikophobia—and religion as indispensable forms of …
America's Cartesian Intellectual Method
Esotericism and Living in the Truth
I consider the relationship between Christianity and the decline/fall of esotericism. Melzer is right that the withering of esotericism is the post-Christian intention and effect of modern thought. One result is that it's hard to know what dangerous or self-destructive opinion is hidden these days. My own view is that it's impossible to restore the classical distinction between esoteric philosophy and exoteric law, partly because that distinction…
True Liberalism versus Democratic Excess
Technology and Mechanization Today
The Place of Liberal Education in America
Liberal education has a real, if precarious, place in America. Its purpose is to remind each of us that were all more than middle-class, more than beings with interests or rights. American liberal education finds its resources in classical and Christian thought, both European and indigenous. The main challenge to liberal education today comes from the libertarians
Locke, Darwin, and the American Science of Modern Virtue
The ‘Good State’ debate in international relations
Tom Wolfe, Walker Percy, and Being Stuck With Virtue
We are pleased to introduce this symposium on the moral, political, scientific, philosophical, and even theological dimensions of the thought of two contemporary American novelists and essayists: W
What is Straussianism (According to Strauss)
Thoughts on the Purpose of the President’s Bioethics Council
Research Article| January 01 2010 Thoughts on the Purpose of the President's Bioethics Council:Expert Consensus vs. Dignified Conflict Peter Augustine Lawler Peter Augustine Lawler Peter Augustine Lawler is Dana Professor of Government at Berry College and Executive Editor of the scholarly quarterly Perspectives on Political Science. He served on President Bush's Council on Bioethics and his Modern and American Dignity is forthcoming from ISI Boo…
Celebrity Studies Today
Chantal Delsol on Human Rights and Personal Dignity
Chantal Delsol's work is distinguished by its articulation of the interdependence of an effective defense of human rights with a truthful understanding of the dignified responsibility of the human person. Most of the experience of the modern world, however, has called into question the sustainability of the experience of the person, while also making it clear that human beings do not have the option of returning to some more holistic world. Delso…
Tocqueville and Robinson in Defense of the Puritans’ Sunday
Stuck with Virtue in Our Pro-Life Future
Our Crisis of Self-evidence
Manliness, Religion, and Our Manly Scientists
The Pursuit of Happiness and the Discontent of the West
Janus-Faced Solidarity
With domestic political cultures in which the values of solidarity, equity and social justice figure large and a long history of internationalism in foreign policy, the Nordic states offer themselves as prototypical ‘good international citizens’. Danish foreign policy long had a passive quality to it, nonetheless it has been broadly consistent with the Nordic internationalist tradition, especially with the adoption of ‘active internationalism’ af…
Reason, sentiments, and personal significance
A World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State
A World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State. By Pierre Manent. Translated by Marc LePain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. $35.00. Has the world outgrown politics? The conviction that it has, according to the French political philosopher Pierre Manent, is what animates sophisticated European thought today. The self-understandings of the creature, the parent, and, above all, the citizen have increasingly been displaced by th…
Scandinavian Exceptionalism and European Union
In contrast to more usual interest‐based accounts, this analysis of the Scandinavian national debates about EU membership focuses on the conflict between different normative standpoints on the implications of membership for the future of the Scandinavian exceptional state. The debates shared a number of crucial features, notably the prominence of exceptionalist (i.e. progessivist and internationalist) critiques of the European project, but distin…
Janus-Faced Solidarity
With domestic political cultures in which the values of solidarity, equity and social justice figure large and a long history of internationalism in foreign policy, the Nordic states offer themselves as prototypical ‘good international citizens’. Danish foreign policy long had a passive quality to it, nonetheless it has been broadly consistent with the Nordic internationalist tradition, especially with the adoption of ‘active internationalism’ af…
The 'Good War' after September 11
Rather Than Signalling The End Of War, As Many Liberal Minds had hoped, the end of the cold war has seen 'hot' war moving firmly to centre-stage, while at the same time presaging a reclassification of its predominant forms and purposes. Since 1990 there has been a rash of what Kaldor calls 'new wars'. Although often highly localized, they confound settled understandings of inter-state or civil war by virtue of the diverse range of protagonists in…
The Good State
The end of the Cold War has seen Western internationalism migrate from the margins to the centre of International Relations theory and practice. As a consequence the modest ambitions of what we might now call ‘classical internationalism’ have come under challenge from more thoroughly cosmopolitan varieties from both the right and left of the mainstream Western political spectrum whose commonalities, moreover, are arguably becoming as prominent as…
The ‘Good State’ debate in international relations
Havel's Postmodern View of Man in the Cosmos
Tocqueville on Pride, Interest, and Love
Tocqueville's presentation of the doctrine of interest rightly understood has been misconstrued because the chapter in which it is presented has not been read in context. That context is volume 2, chapter 2 of Democracy in America, where Tocqueville addresses the effect of the movement toward democracy on the heart, and the disorders specific to democracy that affect the heart's functioning. Read in context, the doctrine of interest rightly under…
Peace Research, War, and the Problem of Focus
Theories of international relations
Fin de siècle
Journal Article Fin de siècle: the meaning of the twentieth century Get access Fin de siècle: the meaning of the twentieth century. Edited by Alex Danchev. London: Tauris. 1995. 225pp. Index. £39.50. ISBN 1 85043 967 2. Peter Lawler Peter Lawler 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 358–359, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624363 Pub…
Tocqueville on the Doctrine of Interest
HERE I WILL SHOW THE STRANGENESS OF ALEXIS DE Tocqueville's account of the doctrine of interest rightly understood. He affirms that doctrine, but not for the sake of interest. He wishes to preserve the greatness and the misery of the Americans’ very intense self-consciousness, and to keep open the possibility of spiritual responses to that experience
Roger Scruton's Conservatism
The English philosopher Roger Scruton calls himself a functional anthropologist. That means he defends the lifeworld—the relational, moral world in which we all must live—against the educated derision of the monstrous entity often called the self-conscious intellectual or elitist cosmopolitan. My focus here is to examine Scruton's defense of the nation—as the civilized mean between xenophobia and oikophobia—and religion as indispensable forms of …
Celebrity Studies Today
Communism today
Symposium on Biotechnology
Tocqueville on Pantheism, Materialism, and Catholicism
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter Augustine LawlerPeter Augustine Lawler is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Government at Berry College. Among his many publications is the forthcoming Aliens In America: The Strange Truth About Our Souls
James Madison and the Metaphysics of Modern Politics
Federalist, No. 10, argues that human beings demand that their opinions concerning their distinctive excellence be recognized as true. This recognition, however, cannot be political. The political realm cannot do justice to the “angel” in man, and the futile attempts to secure such political recognition lead to tyranny. Where does the recognition of one's own humanity occur? The Federalist does not say. Yet it must occur somewhere for political f…
Tocqueville on Slavery, Ancient and Modern
Research Article| October 01 1981 Tocqueville on Slavery, Ancient and Modern Peter Augustine Lawler Peter Augustine Lawler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1981) 80 (4): 466–477. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-80-4-466 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Augustine Lawler; Tocqueville on Slavery, Ancient and Modern. South Atlan…
A message to political educators
Almost every state's laws require some form of political education. Miller (1976) believes that according to most of these laws, such education should form patriotic citizenry. Generally speaking, patriotism is an attachment to a country that engenders within citizens a spirited desire to defend its distinctive political order, both in word and deed. In America, patriotism presupposes a certain type of enlightenment or education. To be patriotic …
Tocqueville on Slavery, Ancient and Modern
Research Article| October 01 1981 Tocqueville on Slavery, Ancient and Modern Peter Augustine Lawler Peter Augustine Lawler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1981) 80 (4): 466–477. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-80-4-466 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Augustine Lawler; Tocqueville on Slavery, Ancient and Modern. South Atlan…
James Madison and the Metaphysics of Modern Politics
Federalist, No. 10, argues that human beings demand that their opinions concerning their distinctive excellence be recognized as true. This recognition, however, cannot be political. The political realm cannot do justice to the “angel” in man, and the futile attempts to secure such political recognition lead to tyranny. Where does the recognition of one's own humanity occur? The Federalist does not say. Yet it must occur somewhere for political f…
Conceptual Change and the Constitution. Terence Ball , J. G. A. Pocock
Tocqueville on human misery and human liberty
Tocqueville understands Rousseau's history as presupposing the authenticity of Pascal's experience of being a self-conscious mortal. As human beings become more human or historical, they come to know and experience more of what was always true about the contingency of the human being's particular existence. Pascal had already know everything fundamental than Rousseau knew. I use both Tocqueville's “Memoir on Pauperism” and part of the second volu…
Classical Ethics, Jefferson's Christian Epicureanism, and American Morality
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter Augustine LawlerPeter Augustine Lawler is a professor of political science at Berry College. He has published widely on the relationships among politics, religion, and philosophy in America. He is editor of American Political Rhetoric, second edition, and of a forthcoming book on Alexis de Tocqueville
Tocqueville and the End of History
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter Augustine LawlerPeter Augustine Lawler is professor of political science at Berry College. He has written widely on Tocqueville and other questions of political philosophy. His The Restless Mind: Tocqueville on the Origin and Perpetuation of Human Liberty is forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield
The good citizen Australia
Gareth Evans and Bruce Grant. Australia's Foreign Relations: In the World of the 1990s. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1991. Pp. xv, 389. Contents, preface, abbreviations, charts, notes, index. A$34.95, hardcover
The End of Socialism
"The End of Socialism?." Perspectives on Political Science, 21(4), p. 180 Additional informationNotes on contributorsDaniel J. Mahoney Editors
Book notes
Jean‐Pierre Cabestan, Le système politique de la Chine Populaire (No. 2863 in the series Que sais‐je) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994. 127 pp. ISBN 2–13–046516–1. Frederick C. Teiwes Politics and Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms 1950–1965 Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1993. 593 pp. $70.00, ISBN 1–56324–226–5. Paperback $27.95, ISBN 1–56324–227–3. Erroll Hodge Radio Wars: Truth, Propaganda and the S…
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Susan Bambrick (ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Australia Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 384pp. £40. ISBN 0–521–365112. Paul M. Evans (ed.) Studying Asia Pacific Security: The Future of Research, Training and Dialogue Activities Ontario: University of Toronto‐York University Joint Centre for Asia‐Pacific Studies/Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia, 1994. 388pp. ISBN 1–895296–15–3
Alexis de Tocqueville
Journal Article Alexis de Tocqueville. By Matthew Mancini. (New York: Twayne, 1994. xiv, 163 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-8057-4305-7.) Get access Peter Augustine Lawler Peter Augustine Lawler Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Pages 1712–1713, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081711 Published: 01 March 1995
Tocqueville on Pride, Interest, and Love
Tocqueville's presentation of the doctrine of interest rightly understood has been misconstrued because the chapter in which it is presented has not been read in context. That context is volume 2, chapter 2 of Democracy in America, where Tocqueville addresses the effect of the movement toward democracy on the heart, and the disorders specific to democracy that affect the heart's functioning. Read in context, the doctrine of interest rightly under…
Tocqueville on the Doctrine of Interest
HERE I WILL SHOW THE STRANGENESS OF ALEXIS DE Tocqueville's account of the doctrine of interest rightly understood. He affirms that doctrine, but not for the sake of interest. He wishes to preserve the greatness and the misery of the Americans’ very intense self-consciousness, and to keep open the possibility of spiritual responses to that experience
Book notes
John Macmillan and Andrew Linklater (eds) Boundaries in Question: New Directions in International Relations London and New York: Pinter Publishers, 1995. 271pp. £40.00 (hardback), £12.99 (paperback). ISBN 1–85567–265–0 (hardback), 1–85567–266–9 (paperback). W.G. Beasley Japan Encounters the Barbarian: Japanese Travellers in America and Europe New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. 241pp. £20.00. ISBN 0–300–06324–5
The Fragility of Freedom
A Question of Values
Fin de siècle
Journal Article Fin de siècle: the meaning of the twentieth century Get access Fin de siècle: the meaning of the twentieth century. Edited by Alex Danchev. London: Tauris. 1995. 225pp. Index. £39.50. ISBN 1 85043 967 2. Peter Lawler Peter Lawler 1University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 358–359, https://doi.org/10.2307/2624363 Pub…
History and Nature
Havel's Postmodern View of Man in the Cosmos
Theories of international relations
Scandinavian Exceptionalism and European Union
In contrast to more usual interest‐based accounts, this analysis of the Scandinavian national debates about EU membership focuses on the conflict between different normative standpoints on the implications of membership for the future of the Scandinavian exceptional state. The debates shared a number of crucial features, notably the prominence of exceptionalist (i.e. progessivist and internationalist) critiques of the European project, but distin…
Walker Percy's Twentieth-Century Thomism
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPeter Augustine Lawler Peter Augustine Lawler is a professor of political science at Berry College, Georgia. He recently coedited Poets, Princes, and Private Citizens, which includes another of his essays on Walker Percy
Saint Thomas and Political Science Introduction
Community and Political Thought Today
Introduction The Concept of Moral Ecology by Allen D. Hertzke and Chris McRorie Are Communitarians Premodern or Postmodern? The Place of Communitarian Thought in Contemporary Political Theory by Murray Jardine How Much of Communitarianism is Left (and Right)? by Marc Stier Does Robert Bellah Care about History? by Bruce Frohnen Universal Benevolence, Adjective Justice, and the Rousseauean Way by Brad Lowell Stone Communitarianism and the Federal …
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