Library of Conservative Thought
Authority and the Liberal Tradition: From Hobbes to Rorty
2nd Edition
By Robert Heineman
January 30, 1994
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...
The Phantom Public
1st Edition
Edited
By Walter Lippmann
January 30, 1993
In an era disgusted with politicians and the various instruments of "direct democracy," Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public remains as relevant as ever. It reveals Lippmann at a time when he was most critical of the ills of American democracy. Antipopulist in sentiment, this volume defends elitism...
Edmund Burke: Appraisals and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel E. Ritchie
January 30, 1991
The eighteenth century remains contemporary more than 200 years later because the fundamental questions raised then about politics in both the American and French Revolutions still speak to us. The writings of Edmund Burke on these and other political events of his time are today acknowledged as ...
Rousseau and Romanticism
1st Edition
By Irving Babbitt
January 30, 1991
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 ...
The Social Crisis of Our Time
1st Edition
By Wilhelm Roepke
January 30, 1991
Roepke's The Social Crisis of Our Time is a series of blasts against the "malformations" of economics: the Nazi and Communist forms of collectivism both come in for severe criticism. Roepke shows the process by which the Western liberal tradition itself makes possible these rebellions against open ...