Introduction: Hunting and Weaving, Empiricism and Political Philosophy
Thomas Heilke and John von Heyking
I. Contemporary Politics
1. Legends of the Calgary School: Their Guns, Their Dogs, and the Women Who Love Them
Tom Flanagan
2. Of Homesteaders and Orangemen: An Archeology of Western Canadian Political Identity
Richard Avramenko
3. Hunting for Cowboys
Rainer Knopff
4. Teaching Public Law
Janet Ajzenstat
5. Spiritual Disorder and Terrorism: On Barry Cooper’s New Political Religions
Michael Franz
II. Political Philosophy
6. Thinking with Technology
Leah Bradshaw
7. Precarious Restorations: Religious Life in the Contemporary World
Peter Emberley
8. Tracking the Good in Plato’s Republic: The Literary and Dialogic Form of the Sun, Line, and Cave Imagery
Zdravko Planinc
9. The Timeliness of Political Philosophy – Reflecting on the Legacy of Voegelin and Strauss
Jürgen Gebhardt
10. A Probing of Consciousness
Jene M. Porter
11. Eric Voegelin’s Workshop: A Study in Confirmation of Barry Cooper’s Genetic Paradigm
Tilo Schabert
12. Hope Does Not Disappoint
David Walsh
Bibliography of Works by Barry Cooper
Tabula Gratulora
List of Contributors
Index
The essays in this volume honor the work of political scientist and Eric Voegelin scholar, Barry Cooper, by considering how political philosophy (a form of hunting) and empiricism get “woven” together (to borrow a metaphor from Plato). In other words, they consider how science needs to be conducted if it is to remain true to our commonsense experience of the world and to facilitate political judgment.
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