Sojourns in the Western Twilight: Essays in Honor of Tom Darby

Co-edited by Robert C. Sibley and Janice Freamo, and published by Fermentation Press, the book is a collection of essays written in celebration of Tom Darby's 35th anniversary with Carleton University. Contributors include colleagues, friends and former students and cover four themes central to Darby's work: (1) Man & Nature (Human and Otherwise), (2) The End of History, (3) The Universal and Homogeneous State and (4) Political Pedagogy. Essays include: World and Worldview: The Technological Paradigm by Gilbert Germain; The New Religion of Technology by Donald Verene; The New Justice in the Age of Planetary Rule by David Tabachnick; Nietzsche’s “doctrine” of will-to-power as a Mythologēma by Horst Hutter; Kant and Voegelin’s Early Anthropology by Barry Cooper; Redeeming Modernity: The Ascent of Eros and Wisdom in Hegel’s Phenomenology by Waller R. Newell; Kant, the Enlightenment, and Mr. Stevens by Ronald Beiner; Karl Löwith and Leo Strauss: A Dialogue Concerning a Possible Overcoming of Historicism by Daniel Tanguay; Confronting Nihilism: The Political Theory of the Psalms by H. Lee Cheek Jr.; Art and Literature at the End of History: Kojève as Critic by Hugh Gillis; What’s Wrong With a World State by Timothy Burns; Thomas Hobbes’ Attack on the Idea of a Universal Sovereign of all Christendom by Phil Azzie; Amicus Plato: The Dialogue between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève by Gaelan Murphy; History, Trans-humanism, and the Emptying out of Higher Education by Peter Augustine Lawler; Political Correctness, Post-History by Joseph Khoury; Thinking and Teaching after the End of History by Toivo Koivukoski; Socrates’ Spiritual Discipline: Love, Learning and Community in Plato’s Phaedrus by Robert C. Sibley; On Odysseys Ancient and Modern: An Excursus on Spiritual Crisis and Causal Explanation by Tom Darby.