Naïve readings
Subtitle: reveilles political and philosophic
By: "Ralf Lerner"
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226353296; 9780226353326
Subjects: Philosophy; Political science
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Looking for the figure in the carpet -- -- American originals; title: The world through Ben's bifocals --; title: The Gospel according to the apostle Ben --; title: Jefferson's "Summary view" reviewed, yet again --; title: Lincoln: the statesman as outsider -- -- Stories to live by; title: Of human ends in Bacon's Essayes --; title: Gibbon's "Jewish problem" --; title: Tocqueville's Burke, or Story as history -- -- In aid of lost souls; title: A thread through Halevi's maze --; title: On first looking into Maimonides' guide --; title: Afterword.