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Authority and the Liberal Tradition From Hobbes to Rorty

Authority and the Liberal Tradition: From Hobbes to Rorty

2nd Edition

By Robert Heineman
December 18, 2020

Authority and the Liberal Tradition critically describes the historical foundations of modern liberalism, implicitly analyzing the status and effectiveness of American democracy. Heineman examines contemporary liberal ideology, which he argues undermines the normative basis of social stability that...

Character & Culture Essays on East and West

Character & Culture: Essays on East and West

1st Edition

By Booker T. Washington, Irving Babbitt
December 18, 2020

Character and Culture by Irving Babbitt is the latest volume in the Library of Conservative Thought. Babbitt was the leader of the twentieth-century intellectual and cultural movement called American Humanism or the New Humanism. More than half a century after his death his intellectual staying ...

Irving Babbitt, Literature and the Democratic Culture

Irving Babbitt, Literature and the Democratic Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Milton Hindus
December 18, 2020

This is a sustained inquiry into the thought of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. Milton Hindus considers the subjects that most interested Babbitt: ethics, literature, education, and social and political ...

The Vision of Richard Weaver

The Vision of Richard Weaver

1st Edition

By Joseph A. Scotchie
April 13, 2018

Richard M. Weaver was one of the founders of modern conservatism. He is an enduring intellectual figure of twentieth-century America. Weaver was dedicated to examining the dual nature of human beings and the quest for civilized communities in a corrupted age that believed in the religion of science...

The Jewish East Side: 1881-1924

The Jewish East Side: 1881-1924

2nd Edition

By Arthur N. Wiens
March 15, 2018

This book, originally published as The Old East Side, is a collection of literature and documents ranging from the autobiography of the sculptor Jacob Epstein and the novels of Abraham Cahan to the reporting of William Dean Howells and the fictional reconstruction of a vanished world by Henry Roth....

A Better Guide Than Reason Federalists and Anti-federalists

A Better Guide Than Reason: Federalists and Anti-federalists

1st Edition

By M.E. Bradford
February 19, 2018

In this seminal volume, M. E. Bradford defines the Old Whig political tradition in American thought, showing that the inheritance of the prescriptive anti-federalists still lives. For Bradford, important elements in our heritage from the American Revolution have been systematically hidden from our ...

Edmund Burke The Enlightenment and Revolution

Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution

1st Edition

Edited By Peter Stanlis
February 06, 2018

Two centuries after Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France, his name and reputation stand alongside Locke, Montesquieu, and Hume - the other still-cited grand political thinkers of the eighteenth century. For those great nations that have fallen into what Burke called "...

Being and Knowing Reflections of a Thomist

Being and Knowing: Reflections of a Thomist

1st Edition

By Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
November 15, 2017

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen's Being and Knowing, rooted in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, rests on two basic assertions: first, metaphysics is the science of being in its first and ultimate act, existence (the act by which all things manifest themselves); second, that existence is known not ...

Rousseau and Romanticism

Rousseau and Romanticism

1st Edition

By Otto Scott, Irving Babbitt
October 02, 2017

This volume is the best-known and most widely discussed work of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. It is also the work that best conveys the ethical and aesthetic core of his thought. Broad in scope, it ...

Edmund Burke Essential Works and Speeches

Edmund Burke: Essential Works and Speeches

1st Edition

By Peter Stanlis
August 30, 2006

In this unique book, Peter J. Stanlis, the leading Burke scholar in America, has collected all the most important works and speeches of Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman, political philosopher, and founder of modern conservative thought and, with due care to preserve the beauty of Burke's...

Edmund Burke and the Natural Law

Edmund Burke and the Natural Law

1st Edition

By Peter Stanlis
April 30, 2003

Today the idea of natural law as the basic ingredient in moral, legal, and political thought presents a challenge not faced for almost two hundred years. On the surface, there would appear to be little room in the contemporary world for a widespread belief in natural law. The basic philosophies of ...

The Moral Foundations of Civil Society

The Moral Foundations of Civil Society

2nd Edition

By William F. Campbell
September 25, 2017

Wilhelm Roepke may have been the soundest economist of the twentieth century. He understood the limitations as well as the strengths of his discipline. Economists are often tempted to take the easy way out, by denying reality to aspects of human existence and reducing them to arbitrary and ...

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