Format:
XVIII, 357 S.
,
23,5 cm
ISBN:
1932236627
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9781932236620
,
1932236635
Note:
Quellenverz. S. [341] - 343
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1: Decadence -- Decadence past and present -- Decadence and the machine -- The perception of decadence -- 2: Equality -- A few unequal and preliminary thoughts -- Equality in the new testament -- The new natural law and the problem of equality -- Liberty and equality as absolutes -- 3: Historiography -- History: a revolutionary or conservative discipline? -- A fresh start: American history and political order -- Freedom and the crisis in historiography -- The United States as a "revolutionary society" -- 4: Intellectual history -- Socialism -- The use and abuse of myth -- Modernity, science, and rationality -- The inevitability of tradition -- Marxism and modernity -- 5: Politics -- Political idealism and political reality -- What is the purpose of politics? -- Why I am a republican and a conservative -- 6: Conservatism -- How does the past become the future? -- The conservative search for identity -- Gnostics, romantics, and conservatives -- Elites, community, and the truth: a little story -- 7: Polemics -- Alienation and relevance -- The second spring of American conservatism -- Why I too am not a neoconservative -- 8: Tributes -- Joseph Ward Swain -- Russell Kirk -- Henry Regnery
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Soziologie
;
Dekadenz
;
Gleichheit
;
Modernität
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1950-2000
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2005921727-b.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2005921727-d.html
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