Laurie M Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3955769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurie M Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurie M |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0974-8459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revisiting the Secular-Sacred Debate: Jung, Strauss, Taylor, and Schindler
Western secularity has been traced to events such as the Scientific Revolution, the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. What is not often appreciated is how thinkers from opposing schools of thought have reached similar conclusions about the long-term impacts of secularization. This article deals with four very different modern philosophers who approach the problem of secularity from their ow…
Why Did Trump Happen? Insights from the Political Thought of Christopher Lasch
Donald Trump’s election and the subsequent roiling of the U.S. political scene have been an unsettling spectacle and have occurred during an increase in right-wing power around the world.1 Why did
The Crisis of Transcendent Values: Higher Education at a Crossroads
The faith in progress that propelled the West for over four centuries is in decline due to its own success. The emergence of capitalism with its novel market imperatives has created both the poverty that causes political crises and the material growth that has destabilized the Earth’s climate. There is a growing sense that we are dominated by the technologies and social organizations that we hoped would liberate us. Individualism and secularity h…
Leadership and Regimes
This chapter looks at the similarities and differences between Thucydides and Hobbes on the subject of regimes. Hobbes was convinced that Thucydides had proved the absurdity of democracy and the desirability of absolute monarchy. However, Hobbes misread Thucydides on this point. For Hobbes, monarchy was the only regime in which the selfish interests of the ruler and ruled rationally coincide. Revealingly, in order to deal with the leadership of P…
Conclusion: Realism and the Thucydidean Alternative
This concluding chapter argues that Thucydides' approach to politics is more preferable than Hobbes's. Hobbes, despite his pessimistic assumptions about human nature, is not realistic. Is it realistic to assume that all people act predictably, that they are always guided strictly by self-interest, that all other motivations are a sham—or, if genuine, so rare that to take them into account is useless? According to Thucydides, human beings are mult…
Human Nature
This chapter discusses Thucydides' and Hobbes's ideas of human nature, which are often said to be very similar. International relations theorists are just as much prone to this mistake as others, referring to Thucydides, as they do to Hobbes, as a “realist.” Hobbes's view is close to the view of the famous “Athenian thesis” repeated throughout Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War . That thesis is similar in many ways to the realist thesis…
Justice
This chapter examines the difference between Thucydides and Hobbes on the issue of justice. The difference between what should be and what is reverberates in Thucydides' moral dramas. All the characters recognize the tension between justice and the demands of power politics. Thucydides equates justice with the avoidance of needless and excessive bloodshed and with adherence to basic war conventions, such as not killing women and children. In his …
Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretations of Realism
This book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides' history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, the author proposes Hobbes's philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides'. The book concludes that Thucydides' approach to politics is more pre…
Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism
This original book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides's history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, Laurie M. Johnson proposes Hobbes's philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides's
Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right: The Political Thought of Carl Jung
Political theorist Laurie M. Johnson deals with Jung’s analysis of the effects of modern scientific rationalism on the development of communism, fascism and Nazism in the 20th century and applies this analysis to the rise of the New Right in the 21st century. Jung’s thought provides much needed insight into contemporary ideologies such as neoliberalism, Identitarianism and the Alt-Right. Johnson explains Jungian analytical psychology as it relate…
Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy
Gianni Vattimo, Professor Emeritus at the University of Turin, is the author of many books which luckily have been translated into multiple languages. This book was originally published in his nati
Radicals and Reactionaries in Twentieth-Century International Thought
Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
Robert C. Holub, Professor of German at Ohio State University, has written an excellent book on the controversy over Nietzsche’s alleged anti-Semitism. Briefly put, Holub argues that to ask whether
Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche
This work, by York University Professor Emeritus of humanities and social and political thought Brayton Polka, is a title in the Lexington Books series Graven Images, which aspires to feature top s
On Philosophy: Notes from a Crisis
A World without Why
Raymond Geuss, professor of philosophy, who specializes in political philosophy, has been teaching at the University of Cambridge since the mid-1970s. This volume is a collection of his essays, and
The Platonian Leviathan, Leon Harold Craig, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010, pp. 704
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The psychology of religion, ideology and state power
Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism
This original book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides's history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, Laurie M. Johnson proposes Hobbes's philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides's
The psychology of religion, ideology and state power
The Platonian Leviathan, Leon Harold Craig, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010, pp. 704
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On Philosophy: Notes from a Crisis
A World without Why
Raymond Geuss, professor of philosophy, who specializes in political philosophy, has been teaching at the University of Cambridge since the mid-1970s. This volume is a collection of his essays, and
Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
Robert C. Holub, Professor of German at Ohio State University, has written an excellent book on the controversy over Nietzsche’s alleged anti-Semitism. Briefly put, Holub argues that to ask whether
Modernity between Wagner and Nietzsche
This work, by York University Professor Emeritus of humanities and social and political thought Brayton Polka, is a title in the Lexington Books series Graven Images, which aspires to feature top s
Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy
Gianni Vattimo, Professor Emeritus at the University of Turin, is the author of many books which luckily have been translated into multiple languages. This book was originally published in his nati
Radicals and Reactionaries in Twentieth-Century International Thought
Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right: The Political Thought of Carl Jung
Political theorist Laurie M. Johnson deals with Jung’s analysis of the effects of modern scientific rationalism on the development of communism, fascism and Nazism in the 20th century and applies this analysis to the rise of the New Right in the 21st century. Jung’s thought provides much needed insight into contemporary ideologies such as neoliberalism, Identitarianism and the Alt-Right. Johnson explains Jungian analytical psychology as it relate…
Leadership and Regimes
This chapter looks at the similarities and differences between Thucydides and Hobbes on the subject of regimes. Hobbes was convinced that Thucydides had proved the absurdity of democracy and the desirability of absolute monarchy. However, Hobbes misread Thucydides on this point. For Hobbes, monarchy was the only regime in which the selfish interests of the ruler and ruled rationally coincide. Revealingly, in order to deal with the leadership of P…
Conclusion: Realism and the Thucydidean Alternative
This concluding chapter argues that Thucydides' approach to politics is more preferable than Hobbes's. Hobbes, despite his pessimistic assumptions about human nature, is not realistic. Is it realistic to assume that all people act predictably, that they are always guided strictly by self-interest, that all other motivations are a sham—or, if genuine, so rare that to take them into account is useless? According to Thucydides, human beings are mult…
Human Nature
This chapter discusses Thucydides' and Hobbes's ideas of human nature, which are often said to be very similar. International relations theorists are just as much prone to this mistake as others, referring to Thucydides, as they do to Hobbes, as a “realist.” Hobbes's view is close to the view of the famous “Athenian thesis” repeated throughout Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War . That thesis is similar in many ways to the realist thesis…
Justice
This chapter examines the difference between Thucydides and Hobbes on the issue of justice. The difference between what should be and what is reverberates in Thucydides' moral dramas. All the characters recognize the tension between justice and the demands of power politics. Thucydides equates justice with the avoidance of needless and excessive bloodshed and with adherence to basic war conventions, such as not killing women and children. In his …
Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretations of Realism
This book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides' history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, the author proposes Hobbes's philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides'. The book concludes that Thucydides' approach to politics is more pre…
Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism
This original book has been consistently cited by scholars of international relations who explore the roots of realism in Thucydides's history and the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. While acknowledging that neither thinker fits perfectly within the confines of international relations realism, Laurie M. Johnson proposes Hobbes's philosophy is more closely aligned with it than Thucydides's
Why Did Trump Happen? Insights from the Political Thought of Christopher Lasch
Donald Trump’s election and the subsequent roiling of the U.S. political scene have been an unsettling spectacle and have occurred during an increase in right-wing power around the world.1 Why did
The Crisis of Transcendent Values: Higher Education at a Crossroads
The faith in progress that propelled the West for over four centuries is in decline due to its own success. The emergence of capitalism with its novel market imperatives has created both the poverty that causes political crises and the material growth that has destabilized the Earth’s climate. There is a growing sense that we are dominated by the technologies and social organizations that we hoped would liberate us. Individualism and secularity h…
Revisiting the Secular-Sacred Debate: Jung, Strauss, Taylor, and Schindler
Western secularity has been traced to events such as the Scientific Revolution, the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Industrial Revolution. What is not often appreciated is how thinkers from opposing schools of thought have reached similar conclusions about the long-term impacts of secularization. This article deals with four very different modern philosophers who approach the problem of secularity from their ow…
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