Teaching in an Age of Ideology

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This volume explores the role of some of the most prominent twentieth-century philosophers and political thinkers as teachers. It examines how these teachers conveyed truth to their students against the ideological influences found in the university and society. Philosophers from Edmund Husserl and Hannah Arendt to political thinkers like Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss, and their students such as Ellis Sandoz, Stanley Rosen, and Harvey Mansfield, are in this volume as teachers who analyze, denounce, and attempt to transcend ideology for a more authentic way of thinking. What the reader will discover is that teaching is not merely a matter of holding concepts together, but a way of existing or living in the world. The thinkers in this volume represent this form of teaching as the philosophical search for truth in a world deformed by ideology. Introduction Teaching Political Philosophy: Thinking in action SECTION I: THINKING AND TEACHING AGAINST IDEOLOGY Chapter 1 Edmund Husserl: Transcending Ideology Chapter 2 Hannah Arendt: How Thinking Saves Us Chapter 3 Raymond Aron’s Pedagogical Constitution and Pursuit of Liberal Education Chapter 4 Bernard Lonergan: Toward a Pedagogy of Political Thinking SECTION II: THE TEACHER’S SEARCH FOR ORDER Chapter 5 Eric Voegelin and the Art of the Periagoge Chapter 6 Gerhart Niemeyer as Educator: The Defense of Western Culture in an Ideological Age Chapter 7 Ellis Sandoz as Master Teacher: Consistent in Belief, Steadfast in Purpose Chapter 8 John H. Hallowell: Principled Pragmatist SECTION III: THE TEACHING OF NATURAL RIGHTS TODAY Chapter 9 Leo Strauss’s Two Agendas for Education Chapter 10 Stanley Rosen: The Nemesis of Nihilism Chapter 11 Harvey Mansfield: Teaching Not Differently, But Further Than the Parties Authors’ Biographies