The Library of Conservative Thought
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
1st Edition
By Joseph A. Scotchie
April 16, 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...
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
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 "...
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
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 Essential Calhoun
1st Edition
By Clyde N. Wilson
December 31, 1999
John C. Calhoun was a major actor in the political history of nineteenth-century America. His dramatic career will always be of interest. However, Calhoun is equally important as a political thinker who continues to elicit widespread interest from the most diverse points of the ideological spectrum...