Gregory Bruce Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 1047295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Bruce Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH G B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Political Philosophy and the Republican Future: Reconsidering Cicero
Political Philosophy and the Republican Future: Reconsidering Cicero
Joseph Cropsey on the Ancients and Moderns
Cropsey's corpus inspects the philosophical tradition with an eye to “rearranging the patrimony.” In that regard, Cropsey sees proto-Modernity as primarily a “re-inspiriting” and “re-naturalizing” return to the Ancients against the Scholastic Christians. There exists instead a far greater break between the proto-Modern and later Modern authors. This essay reflects on the ramifications of Cropsey's rearranged patrimony
What Is Political Philosophy? A Phenomenological View
Political philosophy must be pursued phenomenologically. When pursued phenomenologically, political philosophy is in fact proto or first philosophy itself rather than a subsection of philosophy. As first philosophy, political philosophy must be seen as architectonic, the queen of the sciences
Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics
Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics. By Steven B. Smith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 256p. $35.00. Steven Smith's book is not only an approachable and engaging interpretation of one of the most difficult philosophical works—Spinoza's Ethics—but an exemplary manifestation of philosophical exegesis. It gracefully positions Spinoza within the ongoing discussion that still constitutes the modernity that forms and …
On Cropsey's World: Joseph Cropsey and the Tradition of Political Philosophy
Throughout his corpus, Joseph Cropsey reflects upon the tradition of political philosophy. Those reflections can be fruitfully approached under four headings. First, Cropsey questions the nature and origins of political philosophy as well as its cosmological or metaphysical foundations. Second, Cropsey questions the customary periodizations of the tradition of political philosophy. He especially questions the usefulness of the ancients-moderns di…
Environmentalism, Postmodernity, and Political Philosophy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGregory Bruce SmithGregory Bruce Smith is a professor of political philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity
Smith argues that, while much of postmodern thought is rooted in Nietzsche and Heidegger, it has ironically attempted, whether unwittingly or by design, to deflect their philosophy back onto a modern path. Other alternative paths emanating from both Nietzschean and Heideggerian thought that might more powerfully speak to postmodern culture have been ignored. Nietzsche and Heidegger, Smith suggests, have made possible a far more revolutionary crit…
Leo Strauss and the Straussians: An Anti-democratic Cult
In both scholarly and popular venues, the political philosopher Leo Strauss has emerged as the alleged father of an anti-democratic cult at odds with the principles of American democracy. The relative suddenness and uniformity of this recently evolving sentiment is intriguing. Certainly, Strauss's name and those of his self-avowed “followers” have surfaced in public before recent years. That Strauss was a controversial and iconoclastic scholar du…
Ancients, Moderns, and Postmoderns Political Philosophy 1: Rights: The New Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns . By Luc Ferry and Franklin Philip Political Philosophy 2: The System of Philoso…
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Deflections of Postmodernism
Aristotle on Reason and Its Limits
Endings, Transitions, or Beginnings: The End of History and the Last Man
The post-modern Leo Strauss
Few authors rival Leo Strauss in the variety of conflicting interpretations they have provoked. One might be reminded of Hegel and the proliferation of ‘right’ and ‘left’ Hegelians. But no one doubted that Hegel was a modern author. There is no similar agreement about the work of Strauss. Strauss has been accused of (or praised for) everything from the naive attempt to plot a return to Athens, to being an ideological defender of a ‘conservative’ …
Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra, Part 2: A Reflection on Temporality and Modern Political Philosophy
The role of psychologists in the treatment, management, and prevention of chronic mental illness
The role of psychologists in the treatment, management, and prevention of chronic mental illness
In addition to suffering from the severe psychiatric symptoms of chronic mental illness (CMI), people with this type of disorder suffer from a variety of secondary disabilities and face societal obstacles that interfere with their ability to maximize their personal, social, and vocational potentials. Following the deinstitutionalization of long-term psychiatric patients in recent decades, many different understandings of the etiology, treatment, …
Paths to and From Plato: A Reflection on the Origin of Political Philosophy; The Case of the Symposium
Heidegger, technology and postmodernity
This article presents an overview of Martin Heidegger's philosophical thinking in regard to technology. Heidegger is a key twentieth century thinker whose work can be compared and contrasted to the more well known thinkers and their insights in regard to modernity. Using Heidegger as a springboard, and locating him in the historical context of modernistic thinkers (which include Machiavelli, Descartes, Bacon, Newton, Hobbes) this article provides…
Heidegger's Postmodern Politics? Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question . By Jacques Derrida Heidegger and Nazism . By Victor Farias Heidegger and Modernity . By Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut Heidegger, A…
Dialogue and Dialectic in Plato's Phaedo: Plato as Metaphysician, Epistemologist, Ontologist and Political Philosopher
Water resources data for California, water year 1984; Volume 1. Southern Great Basin from Mexican border to Mono Lake basin, and Pacific slope basins from Tijuana River to Santa Maria River
The Sociology of Virtue: The Political and Social Theories of George Sorel. John L. Stanley
Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics
Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics. By Steven B. Smith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 256p. $35.00. Steven Smith's book is not only an approachable and engaging interpretation of one of the most difficult philosophical works—Spinoza's Ethics—but an exemplary manifestation of philosophical exegesis. It gracefully positions Spinoza within the ongoing discussion that still constitutes the modernity that forms and …
Heidegger, technology and postmodernity
This article presents an overview of Martin Heidegger's philosophical thinking in regard to technology. Heidegger is a key twentieth century thinker whose work can be compared and contrasted to the more well known thinkers and their insights in regard to modernity. Using Heidegger as a springboard, and locating him in the historical context of modernistic thinkers (which include Machiavelli, Descartes, Bacon, Newton, Hobbes) this article provides…
Leo Strauss and the Straussians: An Anti-democratic Cult
In both scholarly and popular venues, the political philosopher Leo Strauss has emerged as the alleged father of an anti-democratic cult at odds with the principles of American democracy. The relative suddenness and uniformity of this recently evolving sentiment is intriguing. Certainly, Strauss's name and those of his self-avowed “followers” have surfaced in public before recent years. That Strauss was a controversial and iconoclastic scholar du…
The Sociology of Virtue: The Political and Social Theories of George Sorel. John L. Stanley
Water resources data for California, water year 1984; Volume 1. Southern Great Basin from Mexican border to Mono Lake basin, and Pacific slope basins from Tijuana River to Santa Maria River
Heidegger, technology and postmodernity
This article presents an overview of Martin Heidegger's philosophical thinking in regard to technology. Heidegger is a key twentieth century thinker whose work can be compared and contrasted to the more well known thinkers and their insights in regard to modernity. Using Heidegger as a springboard, and locating him in the historical context of modernistic thinkers (which include Machiavelli, Descartes, Bacon, Newton, Hobbes) this article provides…
Heidegger's Postmodern Politics? Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question . By Jacques Derrida Heidegger and Nazism . By Victor Farias Heidegger and Modernity . By Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut Heidegger, A…
Dialogue and Dialectic in Plato's Phaedo: Plato as Metaphysician, Epistemologist, Ontologist and Political Philosopher
Paths to and From Plato: A Reflection on the Origin of Political Philosophy; The Case of the Symposium
The role of psychologists in the treatment, management, and prevention of chronic mental illness
The role of psychologists in the treatment, management, and prevention of chronic mental illness
In addition to suffering from the severe psychiatric symptoms of chronic mental illness (CMI), people with this type of disorder suffer from a variety of secondary disabilities and face societal obstacles that interfere with their ability to maximize their personal, social, and vocational potentials. Following the deinstitutionalization of long-term psychiatric patients in recent decades, many different understandings of the etiology, treatment, …
Endings, Transitions, or Beginnings: The End of History and the Last Man
The post-modern Leo Strauss
Few authors rival Leo Strauss in the variety of conflicting interpretations they have provoked. One might be reminded of Hegel and the proliferation of ‘right’ and ‘left’ Hegelians. But no one doubted that Hegel was a modern author. There is no similar agreement about the work of Strauss. Strauss has been accused of (or praised for) everything from the naive attempt to plot a return to Athens, to being an ideological defender of a ‘conservative’ …
Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra, Part 2: A Reflection on Temporality and Modern Political Philosophy
Ancients, Moderns, and Postmoderns Political Philosophy 1: Rights: The New Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns . By Luc Ferry and Franklin Philip Political Philosophy 2: The System of Philoso…
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Deflections of Postmodernism
Aristotle on Reason and Its Limits
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity
Smith argues that, while much of postmodern thought is rooted in Nietzsche and Heidegger, it has ironically attempted, whether unwittingly or by design, to deflect their philosophy back onto a modern path. Other alternative paths emanating from both Nietzschean and Heideggerian thought that might more powerfully speak to postmodern culture have been ignored. Nietzsche and Heidegger, Smith suggests, have made possible a far more revolutionary crit…
Leo Strauss and the Straussians: An Anti-democratic Cult
In both scholarly and popular venues, the political philosopher Leo Strauss has emerged as the alleged father of an anti-democratic cult at odds with the principles of American democracy. The relative suddenness and uniformity of this recently evolving sentiment is intriguing. Certainly, Strauss's name and those of his self-avowed “followers” have surfaced in public before recent years. That Strauss was a controversial and iconoclastic scholar du…
On Cropsey's World: Joseph Cropsey and the Tradition of Political Philosophy
Throughout his corpus, Joseph Cropsey reflects upon the tradition of political philosophy. Those reflections can be fruitfully approached under four headings. First, Cropsey questions the nature and origins of political philosophy as well as its cosmological or metaphysical foundations. Second, Cropsey questions the customary periodizations of the tradition of political philosophy. He especially questions the usefulness of the ancients-moderns di…
Environmentalism, Postmodernity, and Political Philosophy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGregory Bruce SmithGregory Bruce Smith is a professor of political philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut
Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics
Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics. By Steven B. Smith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 256p. $35.00. Steven Smith's book is not only an approachable and engaging interpretation of one of the most difficult philosophical works—Spinoza's Ethics—but an exemplary manifestation of philosophical exegesis. It gracefully positions Spinoza within the ongoing discussion that still constitutes the modernity that forms and …
What Is Political Philosophy? A Phenomenological View
Political philosophy must be pursued phenomenologically. When pursued phenomenologically, political philosophy is in fact proto or first philosophy itself rather than a subsection of philosophy. As first philosophy, political philosophy must be seen as architectonic, the queen of the sciences
Joseph Cropsey on the Ancients and Moderns
Cropsey's corpus inspects the philosophical tradition with an eye to “rearranging the patrimony.” In that regard, Cropsey sees proto-Modernity as primarily a “re-inspiriting” and “re-naturalizing” return to the Ancients against the Scholastic Christians. There exists instead a far greater break between the proto-Modern and later Modern authors. This essay reflects on the ramifications of Cropsey's rearranged patrimony
Political Philosophy and the Republican Future: Reconsidering Cicero
Political Philosophy and the Republican Future: Reconsidering Cicero
Philosophy (19 works) · Epistemology (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Postmodernism (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)