Catherine Zuckert
Biographic Data
| ID | 1095947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Zuckert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuckert |
| SIGNATURE | ZUCKERT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
La crítica de Montaigne a la política maquiavélica
La crítica de Montaigne a la política maquiavélica no ha recibido la atención que merece, ya que no identifica explícitamente el objetivo de su crítica en muchos de los comentarios dispersos a lo largo de sus Ensayos, que abarcan mil páginas. En este artículo recopilo esos comentarios dispersos para demostrar que, a diferencia de la mayoría de los críticos de su tiempo y posteriores, Montaigne no critica la educación que Maquiavelo ofrece a los l…
Montaigne and the Virtue of Moderation
I begin by congratulating the Storeys on their splendid achievement. They have managed to write an eminently readable account of a “conversation” among four complex French thinkers. As a reader learns from the footnotes, their presentation of the unfolding argument is based on an enormous amount of scholarly research, but they never let the scholarship interfere with the smooth flow of their prose
Welcoming a New Editor in Chief
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Dennis WM Moran: In Appreciation and Gratitude
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The Saving Minimum? Tocqueville on the Role of Religion in America—Then and Now
This article seeks to determine exactly what Tocqueville claimed the role of religion was in preserving liberty in America, and to investigate the extent to which the increased diversity of the American population, the “revolution” in sexual mores, and changes in American law have affected that role. Despite recent movements back and forth, left and right, between less and more, liberal and conservative religiosity, the broad outlines of Tocquevi…
Machiavelli and the End of Nobility in Politics
Machiavelli has a bad name. But so, now, does politics. We no longer talk or write much about “statesmen” or “statesmanship.” We speak instead of “politicians” or, at most, “leaders,” about whose motives and honesty we have considerable doubts. In the second half of the twentieth century, “liberal democracies” and “people’s republics” began to be considered the only legitimate forms of government. Yet, despite the apparent victory of democracy, p…
Celebrating 75 Years of The Review of Politics
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Machiavelli's Prince— Five Hundred Years Later
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Remembering Rousseau
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Is There a “Straussian” Plato
The four books reviewed here illustrate the pervasive influence of Leo Strauss on contemporary studies of Plato. However, although the authors all acknowledge their debt to Strauss, they produce remarkably different views of Plato. Reading these books in conjunction with one another cannot help but make one wonder whether there is any longer, if there ever was, a “Straussian” sect or school
Partial Answers to Persistent Problems
In responding to the other participants in the Symposium on Plato's Philosophers I attempt to clarify the reasons for, and the results of, my attempt to bring out the interrelations among the dialogues in order to determine what Plato thought. Recognizing that the indications of the dramatic dates of some the dialogues are controversial, I argue that the dates point to an over-arching narrative–the story of the rise, development, and limitations …
Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
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
The Truth about Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy
Alexis de Tocqueville—200 Years
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Platonic Noise
Platonic Noise
Plato's Laws: Postlude or Prelude to Socratic Political Philosophy
In the Laws, some commentators maintain, Plato put forth his own practical political proposals. According to others, the Athenian Stranger says what Socrates would have said. Having examined the dramatic setting, central philosophical doctrines, and political project outlined in the Laws, I conclude that the Athenian Stranger is neither Plato nor Socrates ahistorically transposed to Crete. When the Athenian ends his description of the best possib…
Books in Review
Why Political Scientists Want to Study Literature
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On the 'Rationality' of Rational Choice
Proponents argue that choice theory is a form of positive science, one whose simplified model of the human psyche generates useful predictions of human behavior. But their assumptions are contrary to fact. Their analyses of public policy decisions are cast in terms of the sharp and now largely discredited distinction logical positivists drew between facts and values or efficient and affective ends. And their models arouse suspicions concerning an…
The Postmodern Problem
(1995). The Postmodern Problem. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 87-94
Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form
Journal Article Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form. By Catherine H. Zuckert. (Savage: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990. xii + 271 pp. $33.50.) Get access Wai-chee Dimock Wai-chee Dimock University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 325–326, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078157 Published:…
Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form
The Politics of Derridean Deconstruction
The term "deconstruction," according to one of its champions, Jacques Derrida, is more than merely a method for interpreting texts; it is a mode of political action as well, though it is not "political action" as that term is ordinarily understood. This article explores Derrida's claim that the deconstruction of texts is essentially and emphatically a political act. It reviews the rationale for deconstruction as a way of reading texts and shows w…
Martin Heidegger: His Philosophy and His Politics
Not by Preaching: Tocqueville on the Role of Religion in American Democracy
Both Jack Lively and Marvin Zetterbaum comment on the paradoxical character of Alexis de Tocqueville's teaching inDemocracy in Americawith regard to the importance of religious belief in maintaining liberal democracy. By concentrating on the political utility of religious belief to the point of indifference as to its content, they argue, Tocqueville undermines the very belief he finds necessary to the preservation of liberty. Moreover, how can th…
On Reading Classic American Novelists as Political Thinkers
Reagan and That Unnamed Frenchman (De Tocqueville): On the Rationale for the New (Old) Federalism
In his 24 September 1981 television address presenting the argument for a second round of budget cuts, President Reagan concluded by citing an old authority:More than a century ago a Frenchman came to America and later wrote a book for his countrymen telling them what he had seen here. He told them that in America when a citizen saw a problem that needed solving he would cross the street and talk to a neighbor about it and the first thing you kno…
Martin Heidegger: His Philosophy and His Politics
The Saving Minimum? Tocqueville on the Role of Religion in America—Then and Now
This article seeks to determine exactly what Tocqueville claimed the role of religion was in preserving liberty in America, and to investigate the extent to which the increased diversity of the American population, the “revolution” in sexual mores, and changes in American law have affected that role. Despite recent movements back and forth, left and right, between less and more, liberal and conservative religiosity, the broad outlines of Tocquevi…
The Politics of Derridean Deconstruction
The term "deconstruction," according to one of its champions, Jacques Derrida, is more than merely a method for interpreting texts; it is a mode of political action as well, though it is not "political action" as that term is ordinarily understood. This article explores Derrida's claim that the deconstruction of texts is essentially and emphatically a political act. It reviews the rationale for deconstruction as a way of reading texts and shows w…
Why Political Scientists Want to Study Literature
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On the 'Rationality' of Rational Choice
Proponents argue that choice theory is a form of positive science, one whose simplified model of the human psyche generates useful predictions of human behavior. But their assumptions are contrary to fact. Their analyses of public policy decisions are cast in terms of the sharp and now largely discredited distinction logical positivists drew between facts and values or efficient and affective ends. And their models arouse suspicions concerning an…
Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
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
Plato's Laws: Postlude or Prelude to Socratic Political Philosophy
In the Laws, some commentators maintain, Plato put forth his own practical political proposals. According to others, the Athenian Stranger says what Socrates would have said. Having examined the dramatic setting, central philosophical doctrines, and political project outlined in the Laws, I conclude that the Athenian Stranger is neither Plato nor Socrates ahistorically transposed to Crete. When the Athenian ends his description of the best possib…
III. Nietzsche's Rereading of Plato
Nietzsche on the Origin & Development of the Distinctively Human
Professor Zuckert suggests that the main thrust of Friedrich Nietzsche's argument in his well-known work, On the Genealogy of Morals, may have eluded many readers. Nietzsche maintains that if modern man is to live at any level other than that of unmixed egoism or brute force, he must opt for a life of philosophy. But he insists also that, notwithstanding appearances of self-denial, philosophy is altogether self-seeking. Upon fullest development, …
The Political Thought of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The novel has gradually but persistently attracted the attention of a growing number of students of political philosophy as a key to a deeper understanding of the fundamental issues of government and politics. In this essay Catherine Zuckert analyzes three of Hawthorne's novels for their political interest. In examining the tendency, characteristic of Americans, to escape past error by organizing a new community, she makes explicit Hawthorne's ex…
American Women and Democratic Morals: The Bostonians
American Women and Democratic Morals: The Bostonians
The Political Thought of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The novel has gradually but persistently attracted the attention of a growing number of students of political philosophy as a key to a deeper understanding of the fundamental issues of government and politics. In this essay Catherine Zuckert analyzes three of Hawthorne's novels for their political interest. In examining the tendency, characteristic of Americans, to escape past error by organizing a new community, she makes explicit Hawthorne's ex…
Not by Preaching: Tocqueville on the Role of Religion in American Democracy
Both Jack Lively and Marvin Zetterbaum comment on the paradoxical character of Alexis de Tocqueville's teaching inDemocracy in Americawith regard to the importance of religious belief in maintaining liberal democracy. By concentrating on the political utility of religious belief to the point of indifference as to its content, they argue, Tocqueville undermines the very belief he finds necessary to the preservation of liberty. Moreover, how can th…
On Reading Classic American Novelists as Political Thinkers
Reagan and That Unnamed Frenchman (De Tocqueville): On the Rationale for the New (Old) Federalism
In his 24 September 1981 television address presenting the argument for a second round of budget cuts, President Reagan concluded by citing an old authority:More than a century ago a Frenchman came to America and later wrote a book for his countrymen telling them what he had seen here. He told them that in America when a citizen saw a problem that needed solving he would cross the street and talk to a neighbor about it and the first thing you kno…
Nietzsche on the Origin & Development of the Distinctively Human
Professor Zuckert suggests that the main thrust of Friedrich Nietzsche's argument in his well-known work, On the Genealogy of Morals, may have eluded many readers. Nietzsche maintains that if modern man is to live at any level other than that of unmixed egoism or brute force, he must opt for a life of philosophy. But he insists also that, notwithstanding appearances of self-denial, philosophy is altogether self-seeking. Upon fullest development, …
Books in Review
III. Nietzsche's Rereading of Plato
Martin Heidegger: His Philosophy and His Politics
Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form
Journal Article Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form. By Catherine H. Zuckert. (Savage: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990. xii + 271 pp. $33.50.) Get access Wai-chee Dimock Wai-chee Dimock University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 325–326, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078157 Published:…
Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form
The Politics of Derridean Deconstruction
The term "deconstruction," according to one of its champions, Jacques Derrida, is more than merely a method for interpreting texts; it is a mode of political action as well, though it is not "political action" as that term is ordinarily understood. This article explores Derrida's claim that the deconstruction of texts is essentially and emphatically a political act. It reviews the rationale for deconstruction as a way of reading texts and shows w…
Why Political Scientists Want to Study Literature
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On the 'Rationality' of Rational Choice
Proponents argue that choice theory is a form of positive science, one whose simplified model of the human psyche generates useful predictions of human behavior. But their assumptions are contrary to fact. Their analyses of public policy decisions are cast in terms of the sharp and now largely discredited distinction logical positivists drew between facts and values or efficient and affective ends. And their models arouse suspicions concerning an…
The Postmodern Problem
(1995). The Postmodern Problem. Perspectives on Political Science: Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 87-94
Books in Review
Platonic Noise
Platonic Noise
Plato's Laws: Postlude or Prelude to Socratic Political Philosophy
In the Laws, some commentators maintain, Plato put forth his own practical political proposals. According to others, the Athenian Stranger says what Socrates would have said. Having examined the dramatic setting, central philosophical doctrines, and political project outlined in the Laws, I conclude that the Athenian Stranger is neither Plato nor Socrates ahistorically transposed to Crete. When the Athenian ends his description of the best possib…
Alexis de Tocqueville—200 Years
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The Truth about Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy
Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
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
Partial Answers to Persistent Problems
In responding to the other participants in the Symposium on Plato's Philosophers I attempt to clarify the reasons for, and the results of, my attempt to bring out the interrelations among the dialogues in order to determine what Plato thought. Recognizing that the indications of the dramatic dates of some the dialogues are controversial, I argue that the dates point to an over-arching narrative–the story of the rise, development, and limitations …
Remembering Rousseau
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Is There a “Straussian” Plato
The four books reviewed here illustrate the pervasive influence of Leo Strauss on contemporary studies of Plato. However, although the authors all acknowledge their debt to Strauss, they produce remarkably different views of Plato. Reading these books in conjunction with one another cannot help but make one wonder whether there is any longer, if there ever was, a “Straussian” sect or school
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