Jeffrey Stout
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Stout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Stout |
| SIGNATURE | STOUT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How to Stand for Something
This paper responds to the focus issue on exemplarity that includes contributions by Kyle Lambelet, Brian Hamilton, and Gustavo Maya. The paper calls attention to ancient, medieval, and modern precedents that ought to inform our thinking about the ethical and political significance of exemplars
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
What Is It That Absolute Knowing Knows
The Transformation of Genius into Practical Power
Experience” begins with a puzzling prefatory poem in which “the lords of life” pass, as if in a dream, before the speaker’s eyes.3 His names for them include “Use and Surprise,” “Succession swift,” “spectral Wrong,” and “Temperament without a tongue.” We then awaken with him on a series of stairs, able to see neither whence we have come nor where we might be headed. Emerson confesses that his imagination has gone dark. He is having trouble acting…
Pastors and Flocks
The Spirit of Pragmatism
The Temptations of Theory
When students of religion are tempted to theorize, they are more apt to spread confusion than to get things right. In Believing and Acting (2012), Scott Davis offers philosophical therapy for the resulting perplexities. There is no more instructive methodological essay in the field. Because the temptations Davis identifies are real, any would-be theorist of religion, society, or culture would be well advised to take his diagnoses seriously.“Under…
Blessed Are the Organized
The Folly of Secularism
Research Article| January 01 2010 The Folly of Secularism Jeffrey Stout Jeffrey Stout Jeffrey Stout teaches philosophy of religion and democratic theory at Princeton University. His most recent book is Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2010) 19 (2): 10–15. https://doi.org/10.5325/goodsociety.19.2.0010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
Democracy and Tradition
Rorty at Princeton
Rorty at Princeton* Jeffrey Stout (bio) Once a year the Daily Princetonian used to publish lists of the top-rated courses. When I arrived at Princeton in 1972 to begin my graduate work in religion, Dick Rorty's lecture course on metaphysics and epistemology routinely appeared on the list of the top-ten courses with enrollment over fifty. Two of my friends signed up to take the course. The graduate student precept was held in Dick's office in McCo…
The Spirit of Democracy and the Rhetoric of Excess
If militarism violates the ideals of liberty and justice in one way, and rapidly increasing social stratification violates them in another, then American democracy is in crisis. A culture of democratic accountability will survive only if citizens revive the concerns that animated the great reform movements of the past, from abolitionism to civil rights. It is crucial, when reasoning about practical matters, not only to admit how grave one's situa…
A House Founded on the Sea
CHAPTER 5. The New Traditionalism
How Charity Transcends the Culture Wars
In 1994 the “Ramsey Colloquium,” under the leadership of Richard John Neuhaus, posed a challenge to what it called the “homosexual movement” within the Christian Church. The challenge was to prove that it had reasons distinguishable from secular liberalism—reasons consistent with orthodox Christian theology—in favor of same‐sex coupling. Eugene Rogers's book, Sexuality and the Christian Body: Their Way into the Triune God , can be read as a respo…
What We Owe to Each Other
Book Review| April 01 2002 What We Owe to Each Other Jeffrey Stout Jeffrey Stout Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (2): 420. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-2-420-a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey Stout; What We Owe to Each Other. Common Knowledge 1 April 2002; 8 (2): 420. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-2-420-a Download citation file: Z…
Homeward Bound
The Cunning of Modern Religious Thought . David S. Pacini
Philosophical Explanations. Robert Nozick
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
The Problem of Meaning
ATHERINE BELSEY declares that central of literary theory is the of What is this problem? Belsey does not say, though she does say that it is the issue on which empiricists, formalists, and poststructuralists all disagree, that it is not possible responsibly practice literary criticism unperturbed by this issue, and that decisions on the issue determine, quite literally, what constitutes the work of the critic. Now this sums up quite neatly the vi…
What Is the Meaning of a Text
I SHALL NOT assert and defend an answer to the title question. My aim, instead, will be to undermine the widespread assumption that this question either requires or deserves an answer. Other questions would serve our purposes better. Hermeneutical theorists typically present their theories as claims about meaning. It is natural to suppose that something very much like the question, What is the meaning of a text? should serve as the point of refer…
Redirecting Inquiry in the Religion-Morality Debate
Morality's relation to religion stands among the broad cultural issues that pull people towards philosophy and religious studies. We hope for insight, but what we find when we get there is another matter – a debate on ‘is’ and ‘ought’ with all the marks of a dead end. While the intellectual goals and strategies that led in this direction have elicited little scholarly attention to date, the time and the tools for an effective critique may now be …
Democracy and Tradition
The Transformation of Genius into Practical Power
Experience” begins with a puzzling prefatory poem in which “the lords of life” pass, as if in a dream, before the speaker’s eyes.3 His names for them include “Use and Surprise,” “Succession swift,” “spectral Wrong,” and “Temperament without a tongue.” We then awaken with him on a series of stairs, able to see neither whence we have come nor where we might be headed. Emerson confesses that his imagination has gone dark. He is having trouble acting…
What Is the Meaning of a Text
I SHALL NOT assert and defend an answer to the title question. My aim, instead, will be to undermine the widespread assumption that this question either requires or deserves an answer. Other questions would serve our purposes better. Hermeneutical theorists typically present their theories as claims about meaning. It is natural to suppose that something very much like the question, What is the meaning of a text? should serve as the point of refer…
The Temptations of Theory
When students of religion are tempted to theorize, they are more apt to spread confusion than to get things right. In Believing and Acting (2012), Scott Davis offers philosophical therapy for the resulting perplexities. There is no more instructive methodological essay in the field. Because the temptations Davis identifies are real, any would-be theorist of religion, society, or culture would be well advised to take his diagnoses seriously.“Under…
A House Founded on the Sea
Redirecting Inquiry in the Religion-Morality Debate
Morality's relation to religion stands among the broad cultural issues that pull people towards philosophy and religious studies. We hope for insight, but what we find when we get there is another matter – a debate on ‘is’ and ‘ought’ with all the marks of a dead end. While the intellectual goals and strategies that led in this direction have elicited little scholarly attention to date, the time and the tools for an effective critique may now be …
The Problem of Meaning
ATHERINE BELSEY declares that central of literary theory is the of What is this problem? Belsey does not say, though she does say that it is the issue on which empiricists, formalists, and poststructuralists all disagree, that it is not possible responsibly practice literary criticism unperturbed by this issue, and that decisions on the issue determine, quite literally, what constitutes the work of the critic. Now this sums up quite neatly the vi…
What Is the Meaning of a Text
I SHALL NOT assert and defend an answer to the title question. My aim, instead, will be to undermine the widespread assumption that this question either requires or deserves an answer. Other questions would serve our purposes better. Hermeneutical theorists typically present their theories as claims about meaning. It is natural to suppose that something very much like the question, What is the meaning of a text? should serve as the point of refer…
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
Philosophical Explanations. Robert Nozick
The Cunning of Modern Religious Thought . David S. Pacini
Homeward Bound
What We Owe to Each Other
Book Review| April 01 2002 What We Owe to Each Other Jeffrey Stout Jeffrey Stout Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (2): 420. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-2-420-a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey Stout; What We Owe to Each Other. Common Knowledge 1 April 2002; 8 (2): 420. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-2-420-a Download citation file: Z…
CHAPTER 5. The New Traditionalism
How Charity Transcends the Culture Wars
In 1994 the “Ramsey Colloquium,” under the leadership of Richard John Neuhaus, posed a challenge to what it called the “homosexual movement” within the Christian Church. The challenge was to prove that it had reasons distinguishable from secular liberalism—reasons consistent with orthodox Christian theology—in favor of same‐sex coupling. Eugene Rogers's book, Sexuality and the Christian Body: Their Way into the Triune God , can be read as a respo…
The Spirit of Democracy and the Rhetoric of Excess
If militarism violates the ideals of liberty and justice in one way, and rapidly increasing social stratification violates them in another, then American democracy is in crisis. A culture of democratic accountability will survive only if citizens revive the concerns that animated the great reform movements of the past, from abolitionism to civil rights. It is crucial, when reasoning about practical matters, not only to admit how grave one's situa…
A House Founded on the Sea
Rorty at Princeton
Rorty at Princeton* Jeffrey Stout (bio) Once a year the Daily Princetonian used to publish lists of the top-rated courses. When I arrived at Princeton in 1972 to begin my graduate work in religion, Dick Rorty's lecture course on metaphysics and epistemology routinely appeared on the list of the top-ten courses with enrollment over fifty. Two of my friends signed up to take the course. The graduate student precept was held in Dick's office in McCo…
Democracy and Tradition
Blessed Are the Organized
The Folly of Secularism
Research Article| January 01 2010 The Folly of Secularism Jeffrey Stout Jeffrey Stout Jeffrey Stout teaches philosophy of religion and democratic theory at Princeton University. His most recent book is Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2010) 19 (2): 10–15. https://doi.org/10.5325/goodsociety.19.2.0010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
Pastors and Flocks
The Spirit of Pragmatism
The Temptations of Theory
When students of religion are tempted to theorize, they are more apt to spread confusion than to get things right. In Believing and Acting (2012), Scott Davis offers philosophical therapy for the resulting perplexities. There is no more instructive methodological essay in the field. Because the temptations Davis identifies are real, any would-be theorist of religion, society, or culture would be well advised to take his diagnoses seriously.“Under…
The Transformation of Genius into Practical Power
Experience” begins with a puzzling prefatory poem in which “the lords of life” pass, as if in a dream, before the speaker’s eyes.3 His names for them include “Use and Surprise,” “Succession swift,” “spectral Wrong,” and “Temperament without a tongue.” We then awaken with him on a series of stairs, able to see neither whence we have come nor where we might be headed. Emerson confesses that his imagination has gone dark. He is having trouble acting…
What Is It That Absolute Knowing Knows
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
How to Stand for Something
This paper responds to the focus issue on exemplarity that includes contributions by Kyle Lambelet, Brian Hamilton, and Gustavo Maya. The paper calls attention to ancient, medieval, and modern precedents that ought to inform our thinking about the ethical and political significance of exemplars
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