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Steven B. Smith
Publications - 4
Citations - 28
Steven B. Smith is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Modernity & Hegelianism. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 28 citations.
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Destruktion or Recovery?: Leo Strauss’s Critique of Heidegger
TL;DR: For instance, the authors pointed out that Strauss left no major work on any German thinker, except for Max Weber in Natural Right and History and a short essay on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil written near the end of his life.
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Hegel on Slavery and Domination
TL;DR: For instance, Marx's entire critique of political economy, and therewith his analysis of slavery, could well have developed out of an internal analysis of the paragraphs on civil society in the Philosophy of Right as mentioned in this paper.
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Spinoza's Democratic Turn: Chapter 16 of the 'Theologico-Political Treatise.'
TL;DR: Spinoza's political theory is buried three quarters of the way through the Theologico-Political Treatise and comes to light only after the reader has slogged through a long and painstaking discussion of biblical philology and criticism.
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An Exemplary Life: The Case of Rene Descartes
TL;DR: A close reading of the Discourse on Method shows that the book is not about the creation of some anonymous epistemological subject called ego cogitans but is the autobiography of one real, historical individual, Rene Descartes as discussed by the authors.