TABLE OF CONTENTS
July–September 2012, Vol. 41, No. 3
ARTICLES
A School or a Stage? Tocqueville and Arendt on Politics and Education
Brian Danoff
Tocqueville and the Religion of Democracy
Richard Avramenko
Political Relativism in the Work of Martin Heidegger
Jason Blakely
Self-Knowledge and Sociability in the Thought of Rousseau
Benjamin Storey
Leo Strauss’s Adherence to Nietzsche’s “Atheism From Intellectual Probity”
Robert C. Miner
Covenantal Realism: The Self-Referential Incoherency of Conventional Social Contract Theory and the Necessity of Consent
Paul R. Dehart
FEATURE REVIEWS
The Pious Sex: Essays on Women and Religion in the History of Political Thought, by Andrea Radasanu 000
Reviewed by Natalie Taylor
The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against Its Modern Enemies and Immoderate Friends, by Daniel J. Mahoney
Reviewed by G. J. McAleer
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