Videos by Clifford A Bates Jr
This was the first class for my Freshman Undergraduate elective course, Introduction to Politics,... more This was the first class for my Freshman Undergraduate elective course, Introduction to Politics, at Warsaw University, American Studies Center, on Spring/Summer 2021/2022 Term. 11 views
Books by Clifford A Bates Jr
Origins and Sources of Modern Constitutionalism in Europe: Law and Ideas, 2023
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Lulu, 2022
This is a workbook to guide readers through their reading and study of Aristotle's Politics. Thi... more This is a workbook to guide readers through their reading and study of Aristotle's Politics. This book is designed to help readers better get an understanding of not only the overall things being taught, but get a better hold of various problems or issues that Aristotle is addressing in the Politics text. This is will be useful for students reading Aristotle's Politics for the first time, or to those people who are interested in further reading or study of the text.
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This is my book on the role that the concept of the regime plays in politics, especially how we u... more This is my book on the role that the concept of the regime plays in politics, especially how we understand how politics work. The book gives us a review of Aristotle's concept of politiea as it was develop and presented by Aristotle in the Politics and how this concept was then reshaped by later thinkers over time.
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Papers by Clifford A Bates Jr
The Polish and Anglo-American Constitutional Tradition in the 16th–18th Centuries, 2024
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The Critic, 2024
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state ARTILLERY ROW By Cliffor... more Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state ARTILLERY ROW By Clifford Bates
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Polish Political Science, Dec 31, 2022
We argue that the current understanding of politics is caught in a tug of war between “economisti... more We argue that the current understanding of politics is caught in a tug of war between “economistic” and “postmodern” views, neither of which captures the distinctiveness of political rule and consequently instills confusion among citizens and misplaced expectations from leaders. Drawing largely on Aristotle, who warned precisely against this error, we consider the logic of mastery and contrast it to paternal rule. Then we discuss the voluntary nature of economic activity to distinguish it from the involuntary nature of mastery, before turning to discuss the political proper, which is a combination or mixture of these two that nevertheless makes it qualitatively distinct. These distinctions help us to better appreciate what is a likeness between political and economic, on the one hand, and between political and paternal, on the other while realising that political rule is not exhausted by either economic or paternal alone. The paper seeks to show that political rule finds itself as an in-between condition that balances itself against despotic, mastery, and the kind of care that paternal rule points to.
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Political Studies Review, Oct 5, 2016
language; Paolo Virno explores language both as faculty and particular utterance. This way, he ar... more language; Paolo Virno explores language both as faculty and particular utterance. This way, he argues for an understanding of language that is deeply rooted in the human body. In order to do that, he goes through a series of key arguments – he claims that the act of speaking is a performative act and defends it through the concept of an ‘absolute performative’ (p. 43). Furthermore, he sets out an intriguing rethinking of Wittgenstein’s physiognomic work into a ‘second-degree sensualism’ (p. 111), following which he moves onto reification, alienation and fetishism as a way of reinforcing his ‘critic of interiority’ (p. 109). Finally, he aims to connect the current book to his previous work on the multitude and politics (p. 221). In general, Virno explores a variety of sources, but Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Frege and De Martino seem to be the most recurring ones. Even though the book explicitly focuses on language from its very outset, for the attentive reader, it is not difficult to identify the many implied political implications, which are finally made explicit in the third part of the book (pp. 169–236). Overall, it could be said that Virno manages to provide an intricate and convincing argument that grows in complexity. Considering that the text of the book was first published in Italy in 2003, the new (and first) translation introduces an innovative and noteworthy text to English-language readers. The book is, as expected of Virno, purely theoretical. Regardless of that, Virno focuses on embodied phenomena and at times refers to palaeontological (Leroi-Gourhan), anthropological (Gehlen and Herder), and psychological sources (such as Piaget and Vygotsky), in addition to the already mentioned philosophical ones. Furthermore, Virno’s style is not hostile to the reader, and by growing in complexity with each part, although not explicitly linked, the understanding of each subsequent essay is facilitated. In conclusion, When the Word Becomes Flesh makes for an intriguing, innovative and somewhat radical text that aims to provide an account of human nature as something that is not distant and inaccessible, but actually manifest in common empirical occurrences such as the language faculty. Furthermore, the book shies away from theology and provides an interesting, yet underdeveloped, appendix on Wittgenstein written from an atheistic perspective.
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Political Studies Review, 2012
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Political Studies Review, Apr 4, 2012
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Political Studies Review, Apr 4, 2012
This is the long-awaited translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by those who agree with th... more This is the long-awaited translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by those who agree with the position held by Leo Strauss and his students that if one is going to access texts through a translation rather than in their original language, one should use a translation that remains literal, which means being faithful both to what is said and also how it was said by the author.The translation by Bartlett and Collins comes from within this tradition of translation, with its insistence on faithfulness to the meaning and usage of the concepts and the language originally used by the author, enabling the reader to access the text as closely as if reading it in the language in which it was composed. This translation insists on keeping to the meaning of the Greek terms and how they were used by Aristotle, alongside a fidelity to the style and argument presented in the Greek text. Another aspect of the approach that underlies Bartlett and Collins’ translation and the school of hermeneutics they come from is that they find themselves in disagreement with the dominant schools of classical Greek philology in the Anglo-American tradition and how they often translate Greek texts, which tends to assume that there is a consistent tradition of the meaning of Greek terms used by (and often coined by) Aristotle (or Plato) and the Latin and medieval Roman Catholic tradition. Also, the Anglo-American tradition all too often pays little attention to the form in which the text is presented (although this is more the case when dealing with Plato and his use of the dialogic form than with Aristotle), whereas Bartlett and Collins pay close attention to the rhetorical character of the text. The goal of their translation is to allow one to access as closely as possible the ideas and arguments presented by the author in the text and not to do all the work for the reader by explaining away or summing up the difficulties within it. There has been another literal translation before this one that does a good job of balancing the hard line between faithfulness to the Greek text and readability – that by Joe Sach published in 2002. Sach’s translation has fewer notes and often uses a wider variety of translations of key Greek terms, which makes it a bit more readable and is thus seen as being a very student-friendly literal translation. In contrast, the translation by Bartlett and Collins has extensive scholarly notes and explanations of possible alternatives or why they made a particular choice.Thus the Bartlett and Collins translation will also be very useful to those who are accessing the original Greek text, as it confronts the scholarship of classical philology. Even those who disagree with most of the interpretations of the Straussian school will find this translation extremely useful for the purpose of scholarship and for teaching more advanced courses where careful and close attention to the text is required.
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Political Studies Review, Jul 9, 2016
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Political Studies Review, Jul 7, 2015
her conclusion, Duran also adds a wider scope for political thought by feminists in a modern cont... more her conclusion, Duran also adds a wider scope for political thought by feminists in a modern context and thus explains the importance of understanding and nurturing female philosophical thought and political theory. Women in Political Theory provides an excellent insight into the state of female political thought and philosophy. It is successful in questioning whether we even have a female political theoretical discourse and how important it is to acknowledge those who have previously produced such complex work. It presents their work in parallel to the modern feminist approach to political thought in order to answer these questions.
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Polish Political Science Review
This paper offers a reexamination of Aristotle’s Politics 4, chapter 12–13—the so-called account ... more This paper offers a reexamination of Aristotle’s Politics 4, chapter 12–13—the so-called account of polity or the mixed regime. Aristotle suggests that the forthcoming discussion delves into either the optimal governing system in general or the most prevalent form of governance across various cities. However, upon closer examination of Politics 4.12–13, a distinct perspective emerges. Working off the account of the meso (the middle) of Politics 4.11, in 12–13 we are not offered an account of the best practical regime, that is of a specific regime form. Instead, Aristotle presents an account on how regimes can achieve moderation and harmony—that is stability. So instead of an account of a specific regime type, we get an account of what moderates and stabilizes regimes generally.
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