|Arthur Melzer, Deirdre McCloskey, Markets, Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert P. George, Steven J. Kautz
Anxious Trade
by Graham McAleer|
|Arthur Melzer, Deirdre McCloskey, Markets, Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert P. George, Steven J. Kautz
by Graham McAleer|
|Arthur Melzer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Leo Strauss, Philosophy Between the Lines
The most important book published in political philosophy in years is Arthur M. Melzer’s Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing. It first of all establishes, beyond all reasonable doubt, that philosophers (and poets, and other writers) routinely deployed “a double doctrine.” One was “exoteric” or “external” and “public.” The other was “esoteric” or “internal” and “secret.” The intention of the French philosophes—or enlightening, publicizing philosophers— was that the truth about these two contradictory doctrines become public knowledge. They turned esotericism into an exoteric or public doctrine. And Melzer, a professor of political science at Michigan State University,…
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