ROP volume 53 issue 3 Cover and Front matter THE REVIEW OF POLITICS University of Notre Dame Summer 1991 h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 00 01 52 29 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :1 2: 26 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500015229 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms THE REVIEW OF POLITICS Editor DONALD P. KOHHERS Managing Editor DENNIS WM MOHAN Booh Review Editor WALTER NICGORSKI Associate Editors Philip Gleason Alasdair Maclntyre E. A. Goerner Thomas Werge Former Editors Waldemar Gurian Thomas Stritch M. A. Fitzsimons Frederick J. Crosson Editorial Advisory Board Henry J. Abraham Theodore J. Lowi University of Virginia Cornell University Charles W. Anderson Harvey C. Mansfield University of Harvard University Wisconsin-Madison Shlomo Avineri M a p y ^ " © l s Hebrew University Fordhatn University of Jerusalem Arlene Saxonhouse Robert F. Byrnes University of Michigan Indiana University K e n n e t h W . Thompson Ernest L. Fortin University of Virginia Boston College Gerald Garvey Glenn Tinder Princeton University „ University of . . . • Massachusetts-Boston Arend Lijphart University of Catherine Znckert California-San Diego Carleton College Editorial Intern V. Bradley Lewis T H E REVIEW OF POLITICS, without neglecting the analysis of institutions and techniques, is primarily interested in the philosophical and historical approach to political realities. The articles in T H E REVIEW OF POLITICS are indexed in the International Index to Periodi- cals and the Index of Catholic Periodicals and abstracted in the International Political Science Abstracts. They are abstracted and indexed in ABC POL. SCI. and HISTORICAL ABSTRACTS and SOCIAL SCIENCES INDEX. THE REVIEW OF POLITICS (ISSN 0034-6705) is published quarterly for $25.00 per year in the United States (Individual, $20.00); foreign $28.00 (Individual, $23.00); single copies, $10.00 (domestic) and $11.00 (foreign) by The University of Notre Dame, P.O. Box B, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Second-class postage paid at Notre Dame, IN. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE REVIEW OF POLITICS. P.O. Box B, Notre Dame, IN 46556. h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 00 01 52 29 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :1 2: 26 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500015229 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms THE REVIEW OF POLITICS Published Quarterly by the University of Notre Dame, Indiana Vol. 53 Summer 1991 No. 3 LEWIS P. HINCHMAN AND SANDRA K. HINCHMAN Existentialism Politicized: Arendt's Debt to Jaspers 435 ROBERT MAYER Hannah Arendt, National Socialism and the Project of Foun- dation 469 THOMAS K. LINDSAY The "God-Like Man" versus the "Best Laws": Politics and Religion in Aristotle's Politics 488 CHARLES LOCKHART American Exceptionalism and Social Security: Complemen- tary Cultural and Structural Contributions to Social Program Development 510 GERHART NIEMEYER On Authority and Alienation: A Meditation 530 Reviews: Glen E. Thurow: THINKING THROUGH THE MODERN EXECUTIVE Review of Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.'s Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Executive Power 547 John Brademas: AMERICA'S SECOND MOST POWERFUL OFFICE Review of Ronald M. Peters, Jr.'s The American Speakership: The Office in Historical Perspective 549 Kent A. Kirwan: REQUISITES OF AMERICAN STATESMANSHIP Review of Robert A. Goldwin's Why Blacks, Women, and Jews Are Not Mentioned in the Constitution and Other Unorthodox Views 551 Alan Gibson: MADISON'S THINKING IN THE LATER YEARS Review of Drew R. McCoy's The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy 555 David L. Salvaterra: CATHOLIC CULTURE IN POST-1920 AMERICA Review of Arnold Sparr's To Promote, Defend and Redeem: The Catholic Literary Revival and the Cultural Transformation of American Catholicism, 1920- 1960 559 h tt p s: // d o i.o rg /1 0. 10 17 /S 00 34 67 05 00 01 52 29 D o w n lo ad ed f ro m h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re . C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :1 2: 26 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500015229 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Gerard Wegemer: POLITICS AND PATERNITY IN RENAISSANCE CULTURE Review of Debra Kuller Shuger's Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture 561 Dante Germino: MACHIAVELLIAN ANTI-MACHIAVELLIANISM? Review of Robert Bireley's The Counter-Reformation Prince: Anti-Machia- vellian or Catholic Statecraft in Early Modem Europe 563 Stephen M. Fallon: BETWEEN HOBBES AND MILTON Review of Conal Condren's George Lawson's Politica and the English Revolu- tion 565 Patrick J . C. Powers: KANT'S PRACTICAL INTENT Review of Richard L. Velkley's Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundations of Kant's Critical Philosophy 568 Edward J . Harpham: T H E HUMEAN AND KANTIAN HAYEK Review of Chandran Kukathas's Hayek and Modern Liberalism 571 Kerry H. Whiteside: SOCIAL THEORY AND THE FRENCH EXISTENTIALISTS Review of Sonia Kruks's Situation and Human Existence: Freedom, Subjectivity, and Society 573 Elliot Bartky: Is WAR DEMOCRACY'S SOLE INCAPACITY? Review of Peter T. Manicas's War and Democracy 576 James W. Muller: IMPERIALISM AS THE HIGHEST STAGE OF CIVILIZATION Review of Kirk Emmert's Winston S. Churchill on Empire 580 INSTRUCTIONS T O CONTRIBUTORS All manuscripts should be submitted in QUADRUPLICATE to The Review of Politics, Box B, Notre Dame, IN 46556. If the return of the manuscript is desired, a stamped, self-addressed envelope should be enclosed. All typewritten material should be double-spaced, including notes and quotations; photocopies of a good quality are acceptable. 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C ar n eg ie M el lo n U n iv er si ty , o n 0 6 A p r 20 21 a t 02 :1 2: 26 , s u b je ct t o t h e C am b ri d g e C o re t er m s o f u se , a va ila b le a t h tt p s: // w w w .c am b ri d g e. o rg /c o re /t er m s. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670500015229 https://www.cambridge.org/core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Contributors to This Issue SANDRA K. H I N C H M A N is Associate Professor of Govern- ment in St. Lawrence University. L E W I S P . H I N C H M A N is Associate Professor of Government in Clarkson University- Potsdam. R O B E R T M A Y E R is Assistant Professor of Political Science in Loyola University. T H O M A S K . LINDSAY is a member of the Political Science D e p a r t m e n t in the University of Northern Iowa where he teaches political philosophy. CHARLES LOCKHART is Professor of Political Science in Texas Christian University. 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