Teaching in an Age of Ideology

John von Heyking is an professor of political science at the University of Lethbridge.Lee Trepanier is an associate professor of political science at Saginaw Valley State University.

• Introduction: Teaching Political Philosophy, Lee Trepanier and John von HeykingSection I: Thinking and Teaching against IdeologyChapter 1: Edmund Husserl, Molly Brigid FlynnChapter 2: Hannah Arendt, Leah BradshawChapter 3: Raymond Aron’s Educative Legacy, Bryan-Paul FrostChapter 4: Bernard Lonergan, Lance M. GriggSection II: The Teacher’s Search for OrderChapter 5: Eric Voegelin and the “Art of the Perigoge”, John von HeykingChapter 6: Gerhart Niemeyer as Educator: The Defense of Western Culture in an Ideological Age, Michael HenryChapter 7: Ellis Sandoz as Master TeacherCharles R. Embry, Texas A & M University at CommerceChapter 8: John H. Hallowell, Principled Pragmatist, Tim HoyeSection III: The Teaching of Natural Rights TodayChapter 9: Leo Strauss’s Two Agendas for Education, Michael ZuckertChapter 10: Stanley Rosen the Nemesis of Nihilism. Nalin RanasingheChapter 11: Harvey Mansfield, Travis D. Smith

There may be no formula on how to be an outstanding teacher, but this splendid collection, mostly by younger scholars, provide intimations, insights, and reflections on master teachers they have known. Great teaching always contains an element of resistance –to the lie, to mere opinion, to deceit—and is invariably based on common sense even while it aspires to something more.