Naïve readings : reveilles political and philosophic /
One sure fact of humanity is that we all cherish our opinions and will often strongly resist efforts by others to change them. Philosophers and politicians have long understood this, and whenever they have sought to get us to think differently they have often resorted to forms of camouflage that sli...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Looking for the figure in the carpet
- American originals The world through Ben's bifocals
- The Gospel according to the apostle Ben
- Jefferson's "Summary view" reviewed, yet again
- Lincoln: the statesman as outsider
- Stories to live by Of human ends in Bacon's Essayes
- Gibbon's "Jewish problem"
- Tocqueville's Burke, or Story as history
- In aid of lost souls A thread through Halevi's maze
- On first looking into Maimonides' guide
- Afterword.
