Lee Trepanier

SoTL as a Subfield for Political Science Graduate Programs

ABSTRACT This article offers a theoretical proposal of how political science graduate programs can emphasize teaching in the discipline by creating the subfield of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Currently, these programs neither prepare their students for academic positions where teaching is valued nor participate in a disciplinary trend that emphasize SoTL. Furthermore, the recent political pressure for political science programs to demonstrate their public worth might be alleviated by the scholarship in teaching and learning, which is more understandable to the public than traditional non-SoTL work. The article concludes with some of the challenges political science programs may confront in institutionalizing a subfield of SoTL and how they can overcome them.

The Politics and Experience of Active Love in The Brothers Karamazov

Abstract Contrary to the claims that The Brothers Karamazov is a polyphonic novel, in which the authors own views are irrelevant to its interpretation, and that Dostoevsky himself was unable to furnish an adequate defense of Christianity after Book V, the author shows how Zossimas doctrines of active love and responsibility for all are the interpretive keys to the novel. This so-called “unity in diversity” in Bakhtins literary criticism thereby provide a compelling alternative vision of community from the Grand Inquisitors.

Eric Voegelin's Contribution to Political Science

ABSTRACT This article compares Eric Voegelins contribution to political science to European émigré scholars of the same period: Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, Hans Morgenthau, and Leo Strauss. It highlights Voegelins main contributions to the field, reviews The Eric Voegelin Reader, and how The Reader will help scholars in both the classroom and scholarship.

Faith and Political Philosophy the Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934–1964

cussion of the recent debates surrounding apologies and reparations for the Rosewood, Florida, and Tulsa, Oklahoma massacres of the early twentieth century would allow Weiner to discuss the distinct cases of apologizing for slavery and for Jim Crow era wrongs. Sins of the Parents will appeal to scholars across a variety of disciplines and sub-fields within political science. The case studies in the early chapters will appeal to historians, sociologists, as well as those who study Congress and interest groups, and the discussion of citizenship, identity, the nation-state, and apologies in the latter chapters will engage political theorists and philosophers. Weiner’s passion is evident throughout the book, and he writes in a lively, nonpolemical tone at a level that advanced undergraduates and graduate students will appreciate. Sins of the Parents would be well assigned in various classes, from political theory courses on justice and citizenship to courses in race and ethnic politics.

Jews, Christians, and Commerce: A Symposium on The Merchant of Venice

Abstract Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice provides a concrete characterization of how different cultures, traditions, and value come into cooperation and conflict in the cities of Venice and Belmont. Reviewing the works of Bradizza, Burns, Trepanier, and Ajzenstat, I show how these authors interpret Shakespeares play in addressing questions of religious tolerance, commerce and contract, and political virtue.

Contract, Friendship, and Love in The Merchant of Venice

Abstract Shakespeare shows how enforceable contract not only undergirds the city of Venice, which makes a multicultural society possible, but its corrosive effects on non-contractual relationships like friendship, love, and marriage. This is evident in the decisions, actions, and relationships of Antonio, Bassanio, Portia, and Jessica. Although Shakespeare concludes the play on a happy note, the conclusion one can reach is that, despite its advantages, regimes based on commerce and contract fail to create the conditions for friendship, love, and marriage to flourish.

Consciousness, Memory, and History in Tolstoy's War and Peace

Abstract Contrary to the critics of Tolstoys War and Peace who have interpreted the Second Epilogue as an aberration in the novel that distracts from the merits of the work, I argue that Tolstoy spells out the crucial principles that organize the entire novel in the Second Epilogue. In the Second Epilogue, Tolstoy presents his philosophy of consciousness and memory that, in turn, informs his philosophy of history that is similar to Augustines conceptions of the city of God and the city of man. Tolstoys comments, therefore, about God, freedom, and history in the Second Epilogue make War and Peace a philosophical work that has literary elements within it rather than a literary work with philosophical aspects.

Faith and Political Philosophy the Correspondence between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin, 1934–1964 – Edited by Peter Emberley and Barry Cooper Eric Voegelin's Dialogues with the Postmoderns Searching for Foundations – Edited by Peter A. Petrakis and Cecil Eubanks

cussion of the recent debates surrounding apologies and reparations for the Rosewood, Florida, and Tulsa, Oklahoma massacres of the early twentieth century would allow Weiner to discuss the distinct cases of apologizing for slavery and for Jim Crow era wrongs. Sins of the Parents will appeal to scholars across a variety of disciplines and sub-fields within political science. The case studies in the early chapters will appeal to historians, sociologists, as well as those who study Congress and interest groups, and the discussion of citizenship, identity, the nation-state, and apologies in the latter chapters will engage political theorists and philosophers. Weiner’s passion is evident throughout the book, and he writes in a lively, nonpolemical tone at a level that advanced undergraduates and graduate students will appreciate. Sins of the Parents would be well assigned in various classes, from political theory courses on justice and citizenship to courses in race and ethnic politics.