| Description |
xviii, 357 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-343) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Culture.
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Culture. |
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Sociology.
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Sociology. |
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Equality.
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Equality. |
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Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
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Civilization, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
1950- |
| Added Author |
Schneider, Gregory L., 1965-
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| ISBN |
1932236627 |
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1932236635 paperback |
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9781932236620 |
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9781932236637 paperback |
| Standard No. |
9781932236637 (pbk.) |
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