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A Paleoconservative Anthology

New Voices for an Old Tradition

by Wayne Allensworth, David Azerrad, Mark G. Brennan, C. Jay Engel, Pedro Gonzalez, Grant Havers, Carl F. Horowitz, Stephen B. Presser, Keith Preston, Alexander Riley, Joseph Scotchie, William J. Watkins Jr. ...

Series series Political Theory for Today
This anthology provides detailed examinations of the major themes and perspectives of the paleoconservatives as political thinkers and activists. A long forgotten and persistently disregarded group within the American Right, but their ideas show a remarkable staying power. Paleoconservatives, as this anthology undertakes to show, have been among the most original and insightful representatives of ... Read more

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This anthology provides detailed examinations of the major themes and perspectives of the paleoconservatives as political thinkers and activists. A long forgotten and persistently disregarded group within the American Right, but their ideas show a remarkable staying power. Paleoconservatives, as this anthology undertakes to show, have been among the most original and insightful representatives of
... Read more
The Medium Is Still the Message

Marshall McLuhan for Our Time

by Grant N. Havers ...

The Medium Is Still the Message presents Marshall McLuhan, history's foremost philosopher of media, as the indispensable guide for understanding the impact of technologies. McLuhan (1911-1980) shows that media are not simply tools of communication: they create new environments with transformational effects on politics, economics, culture, identity, religion, and nature. Grant N. Havers argues that ... Read more

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The Medium Is Still the Message presents Marshall McLuhan, history's foremost philosopher of media, as the indispensable guide for understanding the impact of technologies. McLuhan (1911-1980) shows that media are not simply tools of communication: they create new environments with transformational effects on politics, economics, culture, identity, religion, and nature. Grant N. Havers argues that
... Read more
Aristocratic Voices

Forgotten Arguments about Virtue, Authority, and Inequality

by Matthew T. Cantirino, John Farrenkopf, Michael P. Federici, Michael P. Harding, Grant Havers, Scott J. Irving, Rachel Hawks, Patrick Macfarlane, Cary Joseph Nederman, Mark Shiffman, Steven Waldorf, Luke C. Sheahan, Derek D. Turner ...

Series series Political Theory for Today
In the 21st century, political debates appear to center on fundamental conflicts between “the people” and “elites.” Most of these discussions emphasize strategies to protect and empower the oppressed masses against a predatory ruling class. Much of classical political thought, however, was written from an aristocratic point of view: that is, it ascribed paramount importance to the question of ... Read more

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In the 21st century, political debates appear to center on fundamental conflicts between “the people” and “elites.” Most of these discussions emphasize strategies to protect and empower the oppressed masses against a predatory ruling class. Much of classical political thought, however, was written from an aristocratic point of view: that is, it ascribed paramount importance to the question of
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Walk Away

When the Political Left Turns Right

by Grant Havers, Jeremy Beer, Ron Dart, Pedro Blas González, Kelvin Knight, Christopher S. Morrissey, Christopher H. Owen, Paul Gottfried, Rockford College, Lee Trepanier ...

Series series Political Theory for Today
This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to the political left only later to reappraise or reject them. Their reevaluation of their own previous positions reveals not only the change in their own thought but also the societal changes in the culture, economics, and politics to which they were reacting. By ... Read more

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This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to the political left only later to reappraise or reject them. Their reevaluation of their own previous positions reveals not only the change in their own thought but also the societal changes in the culture, economics, and politics to which they were reacting. By
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Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy

A Conservative Critique

by Grant N. Havers ...

Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy critically interprets Strauss's political philosophy from a conservative perspective. Most mainstream readers of Strauss have either condemned him from the Left as an extreme right-wing opponent of liberal democracy or celebrated him from the Right as a traditional defender of Western civilization. Rejecting both portrayals, Grant N. Havers shifts the ... Read more

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Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy critically interprets Strauss's political philosophy from a conservative perspective. Most mainstream readers of Strauss have either condemned him from the Left as an extreme right-wing opponent of liberal democracy or celebrated him from the Right as a traditional defender of Western civilization. Rejecting both portrayals, Grant N. Havers shifts the
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Eric Voegelin Today

Voegelin’s Political Thought in the 21st Century

by Scott Robinson, David Whitney, David D. Corey, Nathan W. Harter, Grant Havers, Christopher S. Morrissey, Scott Philip Segrest, Lee Trepanier ...

Series series Political Theory for Today
This book analyzes Eric Voegelin’s scholarly works from the 1950s and early 1960s and examines the ways in which these works are relevant to the twenty-first century political environment. The collection of essays evaluated in this book cover a wide array of topics that were of great curiosity sixty years ago and still relevant in today’s society. The authors in this volume demonstrate that ... Read more

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This book analyzes Eric Voegelin’s scholarly works from the 1950s and early 1960s and examines the ways in which these works are relevant to the twenty-first century political environment. The collection of essays evaluated in this book cover a wide array of topics that were of great curiosity sixty years ago and still relevant in today’s society. The authors in this volume demonstrate that
... Read more
Tradition v. Rationalism

Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others

by Eugene Callahan, David Corey, Daniel John Sportiello, Colin Cordner, Kenneth B. McIntyre, Ferenc Hörcher, Nathanael Blake, John von Heyking, Zoltan Balazs, Grant Havers0, Mark T. Mitchell1, Timothy Fuller2, Lee Trepanier3 ...

Series series Political Theory for Today
In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide had reached its high mark in the arts, politics, and work. But the Holocaust, the Gulag, and other failures have dimmed the popularity of rationalism. However, the evidence of those practical failures would not have been as convincing as it was if not for the existence of a theoretical diagnosis of the malady. This book compares and ... Read more

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In the first half of the twentieth century, the rationalist tide had reached its high mark in the arts, politics, and work. But the Holocaust, the Gulag, and other failures have dimmed the popularity of rationalism. However, the evidence of those practical failures would not have been as convincing as it was if not for the existence of a theoretical diagnosis of the malady. This book compares and
... Read more
Lincoln and the Politics of Christian Love

by Grant N. Havers ...

America has seen faith-based initiatives and “the audacity of hope” in twenty-first-century politics, but few participants in our political scene have invoked the other Christian virtue of charity as a guiding principle. Abraham Lincoln extolled the merit of “loving thy neighbor as thyself,” especially as a critique of the hypocrisy of slavery, but a discussion of Christian love is noticeably ... Read more

$38.89 USD

America has seen faith-based initiatives and “the audacity of hope” in twenty-first-century politics, but few participants in our political scene have invoked the other Christian virtue of charity as a guiding principle. Abraham Lincoln extolled the merit of “loving thy neighbor as thyself,” especially as a critique of the hypocrisy of slavery, but a discussion of Christian love is noticeably
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R.D Wingfield: Nightmare and Other Thrillers

13 Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramas

by R.D Wingfield ...

Narrated by mx Nigel Havers, Andrew Sachs, Frances Jeater, Richard Caldicot, Hugh Burden, Michael Kilgarriff, Douglas Blackwell, Sheila Grant, John Pullen, Siôn Probert, John Graham, Hugh Dickson, Jonathan Scott, William Eedle, Full Cast ...

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A collection of vintage thrillers from popular crime writer RD WingfieldWell known as the creator of Inspector Jack Frost, RD Wingfield scripted numerous twisty, suspenseful dramas for BBC Radio between 1968 and 1995. Many of the thirteen tales in this collection were originally thought to be lost, but thanks to the diligent efforts of Keith Wickham and the Radio Circle, who tracked down the ... Read more

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A collection of vintage thrillers from popular crime writer RD WingfieldWell known as the creator of Inspector Jack Frost, RD Wingfield scripted numerous twisty, suspenseful dramas for BBC Radio between 1968 and 1995. Many of the thirteen tales in this collection were originally thought to be lost, but thanks to the diligent efforts of Keith Wickham and the Radio Circle, who tracked down the
... Read more

The Sociological Imagination

by C. Wright Mills ...

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal, ... Read more

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C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social science should be pursued. Hailed upon publication as a cogent and hard-hitting critique, The Sociological Imagination took issue with the ascendant schools of sociology in the United States, calling for a humanist sociology connecting the social, personal,
... Read more

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Philosophy and Social Hope

by Richard Rorty ...

Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent essays, articles and lectures, Rorty gives a stimulating summary of his central philosophical beliefs and how they relate to his political hopes; ... Read more

$11.59 USD

Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent essays, articles and lectures, Rorty gives a stimulating summary of his central philosophical beliefs and how they relate to his political hopes;
... Read more
The Urban Revolution

by Henri Lefebvre ...

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Revolution has never ... Read more

$14.39 USD

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Revolution has never
... Read more

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