ROP volume 72 issue 1 Cover and Front matter Politics Review of W I N T E R 2 0 1 0 T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O T R E D A M E V O L U M E 7 2 N U M B E R 1 A R T I C L E S Robert S. Taylor, “Kant’s Political Religion: The Transparency of Perpetual Peace and the Highest Good” Brandon P. Turner, “John Stuart Mill and the Antagonistic Foundation of Liberal Politics” Paul E. Kirkland, “Nietzsche’s Tragic Realism” Dean C. Hammer and Michael Kicey, “Simone Weil’s Iliad: The Power of Words” James Gordon Finlayson, “‘Bare Life’ and Politics in Agamben’s Reading of Aristotle” Review Essay: Ralph Lerner, “Northern Lights Over Tocqueville” The h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 10 00 02 52 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :0 4: 49 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670510000252 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms THE REVIEW OF POLITICS Editor CATHERINE H. ZUCKERT Executive Associate Editor DENNIS WM MORAN Book Review Editor PETER R. MOODY, JR. Assistant Editor LES HARRIS Editorial Interns: Joshua M. Bandoch Andrew W. Bramsen Associate Editors Fred Dallmayr Ruth M. Abbey E.A. Goerner Daniel Philpott A. James McAdams James Turner Former Editors Waldemar Gurian Frederick J. Crosson M.A. Fitzsimons Donald P. Kommers Thomas Stritch Walter Nicgorski Editorial Advisory Board Shlomo Avineri Hebrew University of Jerusalem Barry Cooper University of Calgary John Dunn Cambridge University Jean Bethke Elshtain University of Chicago Michael A. Gillespie Duke University Leslie Goldstein University of Delaware Russel Hittinger University of Tulsa Axel Honneth Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt Shozo Iijima Waseda University, Tokyo Ramin Jahanbegloo University of Toronto Pierre Manent L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales Harvey C. Mansfield Harvard University Mary Nichols Baylor University Bruce M. Russett Yale University Arlene Saxonhouse University of Michigan Steven B. Smith Yale University Peter Steinberger Reed College John Witte, Jr. Emory University Jean M. Yarbrough Bowdoin College Administrative Assistant: Kelli Brown The Review of Politics publishes primarily philosophical and historical studies of politics, especially those concentrating on political theory and American political thought. The journal also includes thoughtful scholarly reflections on all aspects of politics–including analysis of institutions and techniques, international relations, comparative politics, literary reflections on politics or political interpretations of literary works, constitutional theory and practices. h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 10 00 02 52 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :0 4: 49 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670510000252 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms TABLE OF CONTENTS WINTER 2010 Vol. 72 WINTER 2010 No. 1 Robert S. Taylor Kant’s Political Religion: The Transparency of Perpetual Peace and the Highest Good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Brandon P. Turner John Stuart Mill and the Antagonistic Foundation of Liberal Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Paul E. Kirkland Nietzsche’s Tragic Realism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Dean C. Hammer and Michael Kicey Simone Weil’s Iliad: The Power of Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 James Gordon Finlayson “Bare Life” and Politics in Agamben’s Reading of Aristotle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Review Essay: Ralph Lerner Northern Lights Over Tocqueville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Reviews: George Thomas: COMMERCE OF IDEAS IN THE EXTENDED REPUBLIC Review of Colleen A. Sheehan’s James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Paul O. Carrese: WASHINGTON AS THINKER, AND HARMONIZER OF TRADITIONS Review of Jeffry H. Morrison’s The Political Philosophy of George Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Eric MacGilvray: RORTY’S SELF-CONCEPTS Review of Neil Gross’s Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Aurelian Craiutu: THE RETURN OF CONSTANT Review of Helena Rosenblatt’s Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 10 00 02 52 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :0 4: 49 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670510000252 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Jason Peters: THE NATURAL IN THE LIGHT OF THE SUPERNATURAL Review of Matthew Dickerson and David O’Hara’s Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C .S. Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Mark D. Brewer: RELIGIOUS ACTIVISM AND POLITICAL CIVILITY Review of Jon A. Shields’s The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Andrey Kordochkin: FILLING THE GAP Review of John and Carol Garrard’s Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Annika Marlen Hinze: MULTIVALENT SIGNIFICANCES Review of Bronwyn Winter’s Hijab and the Republic: Uncovering the French Headscarf Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Theresa Earenfight: THE EMERGENCE OF THE STATE Review of Thomas N. Bisson’s The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Alexander Green: BETWEEN HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, AND THE JEWISH TRADITION Review of Joel Kraemer’s Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Matthew D. Mendham: SYMPATHY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Review of Sharon R. Krause’s Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Kenneth C. Blanchard Jr.: IMPOSSIBLE KNOWLEDGE, TRUE OPINION Review of Roslyn Weiss’s Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato’s Meno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Ryan K. Balot: DEMOCRACY’S SELF-QUESTIONING Review of Gerald M. Mara’s The Civic Conversations of Thucydides and Plato: Classical Political Philosophy and the Limits of Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Kent Worcester: LESS REVOLUTIONARY THAN IT SEEMS Review of Richard Davis’s Typing Politics: The Role of Blogs in American Politics and Matthew Hindman’s The Myth of Digital Democracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 10 00 02 52 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :0 4: 49 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670510000252 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Sunila S. Kale: INDIA’S POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY Review of Harsh V. Pant’s Contemporary Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy: India Negotiates Its Rise in the International System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Emily M. Hill: A FULL PORTRAIT Review of Jay Taylor’s The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 10 00 02 52 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :0 4: 49 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670510000252 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE ROBERT S. TAYLOR is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. BRANDON P. TURNER is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clemson University. PAUL E. KIRKLAND is Assistant Professor of Great Ideas and Political Science at Carthage College. DEAN C. HAMMER is The John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College. MICHAEL KICEY is a postdoctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. JAMES GORDON FINLAYSON is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. RALPH LERNER is Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus in the College of Social Thought at the University of Chicago. GEORGE THOMAS is Associate Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. PAUL O. CARRESE is Professor of Political Science at the United States Air Force Academy. ERIC MACGILVRAY is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University. AURELIAN CRAIUTU is Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. JASON PETERS is Professor of English at Augustana College. MARK D. BREWER is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Maine. ANDREY KORDOCHKIN is the Dean of the Nativity of Christ Parish in Madrid, Spain. ANNIKA MARLEN HINZE is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Department of Political Science. THERESA EARENFIGHT is Associate Professor of History at Seattle University. ALEXANDER GREEN is a doc- toral candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department of Religion and the Centre for Jewish Studies. MATTHEW D. MENDHAM is a doctoral candidate at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of Political Science. KENNETH C. BLANCHARD JR. is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Northern State University. RYAN K. BALOT is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. KENT WORCESTER is Associate Professor of h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 10 00 02 52 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . 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