Grant Havers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1431027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grant Havers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grant |
| FAMILY NAME | Havers |
| SIGNATURE | HAVERS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Was Spinoza a Pagan
Spinoza once remarked in a letter to his friend Hugo Boxel: “To me the authority of Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates is not worth much.”1 The clarity of this statement has not deterred even experienc
The Straussian-Thomistic Quarrel in Modernity
Leo Strauss is one of the few political philosophers of the twentieth century to appreciate the enduring challenge of revealed religion to philosophy. While most of his contemporaries had written o
Leo Strauss and the Challenge of Revealed Religion
Tradition V. Rationalism: Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others
Reading Leo Strauss: A Straussian Distortion of My Book
Perhaps the only important thing which Professor Burns and I agree on is getting Leo Strauss right. This is no simple task, since Strauss often advanced contradictory positions. He also famously co
Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq: Encountering the Abyss
A Vexing Gadfly: The Late Kierkegaard on Economic Matters
Jean Monnet and Canada: Early Travels and the Idea of European Unity
Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos
The history of Dura-Europos (Fort Europos) stands out as one of the most fascinating stories to come out of antiquity. Founded in 303 B.C. by the Macedonian Seleucid dynasty, this frontier town ove
The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image
A Book Forged In Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
The Future of History
Kierkegaard, Adorno, and the Socratic Individual
The relation between the individual and history is as central to the thought of Kierkegaard as it is to political philosophy as a whole. In the present age, does the individual create history or does history create the individual? These questions are also central to Theodor Adorno, who took aim at Kierkegaard for ignoring the historical and social constraints that inhibit the freedom of the individual. Adorno’s Kierkegaard offers only dogmatic fa…
The Final Volley in the Strauss Wars
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
By Ricardo Duchesne (Leiden: Brill, 2011), xi + 527 pp. $155.00 cloth. Although there have been many defenses of western civilization, the author of this study brings to his subject an erudition th
Adorno and Theology. By Christopher Craig Brittain
Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud. By Michael Mack
Lincoln,Macbeth, and the Illusions of Tyranny
What Shakespeare reveals in Macbeth is the all too human temptation to embrace tyranny. In exposing this temptation, however, Shakespeare also shows that the alleged inevitability of tyranny is a contradictory illusion that cannot survive the cycle of violence that it spawns. In comparable terms Abraham Lincoln exposed the tyranny of slavery as the hypocritical mockery of democracy which threatened the very survival of the American republic. Inst…
Between Athens and Jerusalem: Western otherness in the thought of Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt
In understanding the meaning of the West, twentieth‐century political philosophers Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss called for a return to “Athens” (classical political philosophy) in order to address the “crisis of the West,” a loss of a sense of legitimate and stable political authority which, in their view, constitutes a nihilistic threat to Western democracy. The only way for the West to escape this nihilistic crisis is to return to Plato and Ar…
The Right-Wing Postmodernism of Marshall McLuhan
In the decades following his death in 1980, there has been a revival of interest in the political implications of Marshall McLuhan's works. This new literature suggests that the entirety of McLuhan's works represents a subtle critique of liberal capitalism and a call for a new emancipatory vision. For this reason, many scholars working in this literature see McLuhan as a man of the left. Although there is a discernible anti-capitalistic politics …
Leo Strauss and the politics of biblical religion
Leo Strauss was one of the few political philosophers of the twentieth century to study the relation between faith and political philosophy. Yet Strauss's notoriously esoteric style has led scholars to wildly diverse interpretations of his views: his defenders believe that Strauss supports biblical religion as an instrument of truth and morality, while his critics contend that he opposes biblical religion for its biases while appreciating its pol…
The Straussian-Thomistic Quarrel in Modernity
Leo Strauss is one of the few political philosophers of the twentieth century to appreciate the enduring challenge of revealed religion to philosophy. While most of his contemporaries had written o
Between Athens and Jerusalem: Western otherness in the thought of Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt
In understanding the meaning of the West, twentieth‐century political philosophers Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss called for a return to “Athens” (classical political philosophy) in order to address the “crisis of the West,” a loss of a sense of legitimate and stable political authority which, in their view, constitutes a nihilistic threat to Western democracy. The only way for the West to escape this nihilistic crisis is to return to Plato and Ar…
Leo Strauss and the politics of biblical religion
Leo Strauss was one of the few political philosophers of the twentieth century to study the relation between faith and political philosophy. Yet Strauss's notoriously esoteric style has led scholars to wildly diverse interpretations of his views: his defenders believe that Strauss supports biblical religion as an instrument of truth and morality, while his critics contend that he opposes biblical religion for its biases while appreciating its pol…
The Right-Wing Postmodernism of Marshall McLuhan
In the decades following his death in 1980, there has been a revival of interest in the political implications of Marshall McLuhan's works. This new literature suggests that the entirety of McLuhan's works represents a subtle critique of liberal capitalism and a call for a new emancipatory vision. For this reason, many scholars working in this literature see McLuhan as a man of the left. Although there is a discernible anti-capitalistic politics …
Between Athens and Jerusalem: Western otherness in the thought of Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt
In understanding the meaning of the West, twentieth‐century political philosophers Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss called for a return to “Athens” (classical political philosophy) in order to address the “crisis of the West,” a loss of a sense of legitimate and stable political authority which, in their view, constitutes a nihilistic threat to Western democracy. The only way for the West to escape this nihilistic crisis is to return to Plato and Ar…
Lincoln,Macbeth, and the Illusions of Tyranny
What Shakespeare reveals in Macbeth is the all too human temptation to embrace tyranny. In exposing this temptation, however, Shakespeare also shows that the alleged inevitability of tyranny is a contradictory illusion that cannot survive the cycle of violence that it spawns. In comparable terms Abraham Lincoln exposed the tyranny of slavery as the hypocritical mockery of democracy which threatened the very survival of the American republic. Inst…
Adorno and Theology. By Christopher Craig Brittain
Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud. By Michael Mack
The Future of History
Kierkegaard, Adorno, and the Socratic Individual
The relation between the individual and history is as central to the thought of Kierkegaard as it is to political philosophy as a whole. In the present age, does the individual create history or does history create the individual? These questions are also central to Theodor Adorno, who took aim at Kierkegaard for ignoring the historical and social constraints that inhibit the freedom of the individual. Adorno’s Kierkegaard offers only dogmatic fa…
The Final Volley in the Strauss Wars
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
By Ricardo Duchesne (Leiden: Brill, 2011), xi + 527 pp. $155.00 cloth. Although there have been many defenses of western civilization, the author of this study brings to his subject an erudition th
Jean Monnet and Canada: Early Travels and the Idea of European Unity
Edge of Empires: Pagans, Jews, and Christians at Roman Dura-Europos
The history of Dura-Europos (Fort Europos) stands out as one of the most fascinating stories to come out of antiquity. Founded in 303 B.C. by the Macedonian Seleucid dynasty, this frontier town ove
The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image
A Book Forged In Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
A Vexing Gadfly: The Late Kierkegaard on Economic Matters
Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq: Encountering the Abyss
Reading Leo Strauss: A Straussian Distortion of My Book
Perhaps the only important thing which Professor Burns and I agree on is getting Leo Strauss right. This is no simple task, since Strauss often advanced contradictory positions. He also famously co
Tradition V. Rationalism: Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others
Leo Strauss and the Challenge of Revealed Religion
The Straussian-Thomistic Quarrel in Modernity
Leo Strauss is one of the few political philosophers of the twentieth century to appreciate the enduring challenge of revealed religion to philosophy. While most of his contemporaries had written o
Was Spinoza a Pagan
Spinoza once remarked in a letter to his friend Hugo Boxel: “To me the authority of Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates is not worth much.”1 The clarity of this statement has not deterred even experienc
Philosophy (15 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Religious studies (4 works)