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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2016
ISBN 10: 1932236422ISBN 13: 9781932236422
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. Who are the most influential thinkers, and which are the most important concepts, events, and documents in the study of the American political tradition? How ought we regard the beliefs and motivations of the founders, the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the historical circumstances of the Declaration of Independence, the rise of the modern presidency, and the advent of judicial supremacy? These are a few of the fascinating questions canvassed by George W. Carey in A Student's Guide to American Political Thought. Carey's primer instructs students on the fundamental matters of American political theory while telling them where to turn to obtain a better grasp on the ideas that have shaped the American political heritage.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2001
ISBN 10: 1882926625ISBN 13: 9781882926626
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. In The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis, Robert George tackles the issues at the heart of the contemporary conflict of worldviews. Secular liberals typically suppose that their positions on morally charged issues of public policy are the fruit of pure reason, while those of their morally conservative opponents reflect an irrational religious faith. George shows that this supposition is wrong on both counts. Challenging liberalism's claim to represent the triumph of reason, George argues that on controversial issues like abortion, euthanasia, same-sex unions, civil rights and liberties, and the place of religion in public life, traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs are rationally superior to secular liberal alternatives.The Clash of Orthodoxies is a profoundly important contribution to our contemporary national conversation about the proper role of religion in politics. The lucid and persuasive prose of Robert George, one of America's most prominent public intellectuals, will shock liberals out of an unwarranted complacency and provide powerful ammunition for embattled defenders of traditional morality.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006
ISBN 10: 1933859164ISBN 13: 9781933859163
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Great writing is timeless, and so it is with Deja Reviews. Fifteen years later, five years, no matter how "old" her review, no matter how dated the topic of an essay, readers of this hearty collection will find that Miss Florence King's sharp, crafted prose still dazzles, sizzles, and edures, which is why she finds herself in the exclusive company of great American writers and humorists, such as Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, and Westbrook Pegler, renowned for not suffering fools gladly.Deja Reviews is a compilation of the book reviews and essays Miss King wrote between 1991 and 2002 for National Review and The American Spectator. It is a joy-a duty! a service!-to republish these treasured pieces.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Inst, 2024
ISBN 10: 1932236023ISBN 13: 9781932236026
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 0. The Literary Book of Economics is one of the most innovative approaches to economic education and literacy ever published. As empirical research has demonstrated, economics is taught more effectively when integrated into other fields, and is perhaps particularly effective when coupled with the classic literary works of Western culture, which allows great authors to use their erudition to convey economic concepts and topics too often treated only theoretically. Teachers and students of literature and economics have much to gain by studying economic topics and concepts in this way. Including helpful commentary from Professor Watts, The Literary Book of Economics is a refreshing treatment of the "dismal science," presenting a cogent explication of free-market theory.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2005
ISBN 10: 1932236848ISBN 13: 9781932236842
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloning, gene therapy, stem-cell harvesting-are we on the path to a Huxley-like Brave New World? Not really, argues political philosopher and Kass Commission member Peter Augustine Lawler in Stuck with Virtue: The American Individual and Our Biotechnological Future, even as he admits that we will likely become more obsessive and anxious and will be subjected to new forms of tyranny. Rather, he contends, human nature is such that the biotechnological world to come, despite the best efforts of its proponents, will still fail to make it possible to feel good without being good. It will be harder, Lawler warns, to be virtuous in the future, because we will be more detached than ever from the natural sources of happiness. But we may take some solace in the fact that virtue will still be the best way to live well with what we really know.With irony and wit, Lawler delivers the good news about the future of the American individual: Were going to remain free, because the modern effort to make increasingly individualistic human beings at home with themselves and their environments through technological progress cannot succeed. That is the truth and promise, concludes Lawler, of a genuinely postmodern conservatism.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2024
ISBN 10: 1882926811ISBN 13: 9781882926817
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In The West and the Rest, Scruton argues that to comprehend Islamist terrorism, one must understand what is unique - and what is potentially dangerous - about Western institutions, ideas, and technology.Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies' profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations, is entirely absent in Islamic societies. Similarly, Scruton explains why the notions of territorial jurisdiction, citizenship, and the independent legitimacy of secular authority and law are both specifically Western and fundamentally antipathetic to Islamic thought.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008
ISBN 10: 1933859687ISBN 13: 9781933859682
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Since at least 1971, when he published a seminal article on constitutional interpretation in the Indiana Law Journal, Robert Bork has been the legal and moral conscience of America, reminding us of our founding principles and their cultural foundation.The scourge of liberal ideologues both before and after Ronald Reagan nominated him for the Supreme Court in 1987, Bork has for fifty years unwaveringly exposed-and explained-the hypocrisy and dereliction of duty endemic among our nation's elites, the politicization and adversary activism of our courts, and the consequent degradation of American society.Now, for the first time, Judge Bork has gathered together his most important and prophetic writings in A Time to Speak, including a foreword and commentary by the author. The volume includes more than sixty vintage Bork contributions on topics ranging from President Nixon to St. Thomas More, from abortion to antitrust policy, and from civil liberties to natural law. It also includes several of his judicial opinions and transcribed oral arguments. A Time to Speak is an indispensable book for all who have harkened to the truths spoken so forthrightly, in season and out, by this great American original.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2009
ISBN 10: 1933859555ISBN 13: 9781933859552
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. As late as Election Day, headlines across the country blared that the race was too close to call.Even on the verge of his historic triumph in the 1980 presidential election, political observers continued to underestimate Ronald Wilson Reagan.In Rendezvous with Destiny, the long-awaited follow-up to his widely praised account of Reagans insurgent 1976 presidential campaign, Craig Shirley tells the incredible behind-the-scenes story of Reagans improbable run to the White House in 1980-of how the too close to call election became a landslide victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter and independent candidate John Anderson.And this, Shirley shows, was no ordinary election. It dramatically altered the course of American-and world-history. Reagans victory gave rise to a new generation of conservatism, ended liberalisms half-century reign of dominance, reversed the second-worst economic crisis in American history, and led to the demise of the mighty Soviet Union.To write Rendezvous with Destiny, Shirley gained unprecedented access to 1980 campaign files and interviewed more than 150 insiders-from Reagans closest advisers and family members to Jimmy Carter himself. The result is the first comprehensive history of the hard-fought 1980 campaign, a gripping account that follows Reagans unlikely path from his bitter defeat on the floor of the 1976 Republican convention, through his underreported wilderness years, through grueling primary fights in which he knocked out several Republican heavyweights, through an often-nasty general election campaign complicated by the presence of a third-party candidate (not to mention the looming shadow of Ted Kennedy), to Reagans astounding victory on Election Night in 1980. Shirleys years of intensive research have enabled him to relate countless untold stories-including, at long last, the solution to one of the most enduring mysteries in politics: just how Reagans campaign got hold of Carters debate briefing books.Rendezvous with Destiny reveals how Reagan successfully battled the headwinds of the national media, the Republican Party establishment, and even his own campaign team to become one of Americas greatest chief executives.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006
ISBN 10: 1932236473ISBN 13: 9781932236477
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. In The Unlearned Lessons of the Twentieth Century, the sequel to Icarus Fallen, published by ISI Books in 2003, Chantal Delsol maintains that the age in which we live-late modernity-calls into question most of the truths and beliefs bequeathed to us from the past. Yet it clings to a central belief in the dignity of the human person, the cornerstone of the doctrine of universal human rights to which even secular Westerners still cling. At the same time, the process of dehumanization so evident in the ideologies and totalitarianism of the twentieth century remains at work. Delsol charges that it is not enough to proclaim human rights as a sort of incantation but that, rather, one must understand what sort of being the human person is if humans are to be genuinely respected. In other words, if the philosophy of human rights is to form the basis of Western culture, it must rest on a truer understanding of the human person than that which is taught-both explicitly and implicitly-in the contemporary West.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008
ISBN 10: 1933859822ISBN 13: 9781933859828
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2. When it comes to liberalism, the usual story in postwar America is one of decline, accompanied by the subplot of conservatisms ascendance. But take a longer view-look beyond and below politics-and it is the unchallenged triumph of liberalism and its philosophical assumptions that ought to command our attention.The triumph of liberalism means the tyranny of liberalism, explains James Kalb in this illuminating book, for liberalism is the extension into the sociopolitical realm of modern scientific thought and technological rationality. These modes of thinking are regarded by nearly everyone today as uniquely authoritative; those institutions and beliefs which do not conform are regarded at best as annoyances, and at worst as evil. Furthermore, Kalb shows how liberalism is an expression of the interests and outlook of commercial and managerial elites, who are suspicious of less rationalized and controllable forms of social organization like the family.Kalb does not merely rehearse a tale of woe, nor is he content simply to analyze the current situation. With reference to concrete issues such as the debate surrounding same-sex marriage, he outlines the kind of traditionalist response to liberalism that is likely to be most effective. He argues that traditional, decentralized, and nonliberal forms of social organization are ultimately impossible to eradicate, and he shows how more human forms of association than those favored by liberalism might once again be brought into being.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2011
ISBN 10: 1610170067ISBN 13: 9781610170062
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A book for educating citizensThis wonderfully rich anthology uses the soul-shaping power of story, speech, and song to help Americans realize more deeply-and appreciate more fully-who they are as citizens of the United States.At once inspiring and thought-provoking, What So Proudly We Hail features dozens of selections on American identity, character, and civic life by our countrys greatest writers and leaders-from Mark Twain to John Updike, from George Washington to Theodore Roosevelt, from Willa Cather to Flannery OConnor, from Benjamin Franklin to Martin Luther King Jr., from Francis Scott Key to Irving Berlin.Developing robust American citizens involves educating the heart as well as the mind. It is not enough to understand our nations lofty principles or know our history; thoughtful and engaged citizens require cultivated moral imaginations and fitting sentiments and attitudes-matters both displayed in and nurtured by our great works of imaginative literature and rhetoric.Featuring the editors insightful and instructive commentary, What So Proudly We Hail illuminates our national identity, the American creed, the American character, and the virtues and aspirations of active citizenship. This marvelous book will not only be a fixture on bedside tables; it will also spark conversations in homes, schools, colleges, and reading groups everywhere.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2023
ISBN 10: 0962784184ISBN 13: 9780962784187
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cady, Harrison (illustrator). 1st ed.(stated). A collection of stories featuring Buster Bear, Old Mr. Toad, Bob White, and other woodland creatures.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006
ISBN 10: 1933859105ISBN 13: 9781933859101
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cady, Walter Harrison (illustrator). A collection of stories featuring Buster Bear, Old Mr. Toad, Bob White, and other woodland creatures.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1999
ISBN 10: 1882926250ISBN 13: 9781882926251
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Argues that the culture of the United States should be viewed as part of the Greco-Roman Classical tradition, rather than as something new.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006
ISBN 10: 1933859121ISBN 13: 9781933859125
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 30th anniversary. First published in 1976, George H. Nashs celebrated history of the postwar conservative intellectual movement has become the unquestioned standard in the field. This new edition, published in commemoration of the book's thirtieth anniversary, includes a new preface and conclusion by the author and will continue to instruct anyone interested in how todays conservative movement was born.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2007
ISBN 10: 1933859407ISBN 13: 9781933859408
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Freewheeling capitalism or collectivist communism: when it came to political-economic systems, did the twentieth century present any other choice? Does our century? In Third Ways, social historian Allan Carlson tells the story of how different thinkers from Bulgaria to Great Britain created economic systems during the twentieth century that were by intent neither capitalist nor communist. Unlike fascists, these seekers were committed to democracy and pluralism. Unlike liberal capitalists, they refused to treat human labor and relationships as commodities like any other. And unlike communists, they strongly defended private property and the dignity of persons and families. Instead, the builders of these alternative economic systems wanted to protect and renew the natural communities of family, village, neighborhood, and parish. They treasured rural culture and family farming and defended traditional sex roles and vital home economies.Carlsons book takes a fresh look at distributism, the controversial economic project of Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton which focused on broad property ownership and small-scale production; recovers the forgotten thought of Alexander Chayanov, a Russian economist who put forth a theory of the natural family economy; discusses the remarkable third way policies of peasant-led governments in post-World War I Bulgaria, Poland, and Romania; recounts the dramatic and largely unknown effort by Swedish housewives to defend their homes against radical feminism; relates the iconoclastic ideas of economic historian Karl Polanyi, including his concepts of the economy without markets and the great transformation; and praises the efforts by European Christian Democrats to build a moral economy on the concept of homo religious-religious man.Finally, Carlsons work explains why these efforts-at times rich in hope and prospects-ultimately failed, often with tragic results. The tale inspires wistful regret over lost opportunities that, if seized, might have spared tens of millions of lives and forestalled or avoided the blights of fascism, Stalinism, socialism, and the advent of the servile state. And yet the book closes with hope, enunciating a set of principles that could be used today for invigorating a family way economy compatible with an authentic, healthy, and humane culture of enterprise.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1995
ISBN 10: 1882926072ISBN 13: 9781882926077
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This classic work by the author of Ideas Have Consequences boldly examines the Intellectual roots of our current cultural crisis.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008
ISBN 10: 1933859741ISBN 13: 9781933859743
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2. When it comes to liberalism, the usual story in postwar America is one of decline, accompanied by the subplot of conservatisms ascendance. But take a longer view-look beyond and below politics-and it is the unchallenged triumph of liberalism and its philosophical assumptions that ought to command our attention.The triumph of liberalism means the tyranny of liberalism, explains James Kalb in this illuminating book, for liberalism is the extension into the sociopolitical realm of modern scientific thought and technological rationality. These modes of thinking are regarded by nearly everyone today as uniquely authoritative; those institutions and beliefs which do not conform are regarded at best as annoyances, and at worst as evil. Furthermore, Kalb shows how liberalism is an expression of the interests and outlook of commercial and managerial elites, who are suspicious of less rationalized and controllable forms of social organization like the family.Kalb does not merely rehearse a tale of woe, nor is he content simply to analyze the current situation. With reference to concrete issues such as the debate surrounding same-sex marriage, he outlines the kind of traditionalist response to liberalism that is likely to be most effective. He argues that traditional, decentralized, and nonliberal forms of social organization are ultimately impossible to eradicate, and he shows how more human forms of association than those favored by liberalism might once again be brought into being.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008
ISBN 10: 1933859725ISBN 13: 9781933859729
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2. In An Incautious Man, historian Melanie Miller provides a succinct but sophisticated recounting of the life of one of our lesser-known but most engaging Founding Fathers: Gouverneur Morris.One of George Washington's "surrogate sons," Morris played a profound role in ensuring the success of the American Revolution and the creation of the Constitution. Miller provides readers a look behind the closed doors of the Constitutional Convention, where Morris's crystalline but passionate eloquence gave the debate a vitality that remains both enthralling and keenly meaningful for those of us whose lives have been decisively shaped by the results of that deliberation.In 1792, Morris replaced Thomas Jefferson as the American minister to France. His experience there during the Terror is unparalleled in diplomatic history. As Miller tells it, Morris's time in France is a story of conspiracy to help the king escape, of friends imprisoned and murdered, of seized ships and complex problems that had no precedent in the young nation's history.Upon his return to the U.S., Morris served a brief stint in the Senate before going on to secure the building of the Erie Canal and to direct the design of the Manhattan network of streets we know today.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2024
ISBN 10: 1882926765ISBN 13: 9781882926763
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. From his pre-World War II days as Leon Trotsky's leading American apologist to his postwar role as mentor to William F. Buckley Jr. at National Review, James Burnham (1905-1987) was, at different times, one of America's most important intellectuals on both the Left and Right of the political spectrum. This researched volume, the first full-length biography of Burnham, should establish him as one of the twentieth century's outstanding thinkers.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2023
ISBN 10: 1882926927ISBN 13: 9781882926923
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Orestes Brownsons The American Republic was first published in 1865. The nation had just survived a Civil War that threatened to destroy the very life of a country less than one hundred years old. In this magisterial work, Brownson emerges as a political realist as well as a theorist. With brilliant and sobering thought Brownson presents his views on the nature, necessity, extent, authority, origin, and constitution of government in the light of the problems caused by secession and reconstruction. He urges his countrymen to consider their nations role and impact on world history as he outlines for them the political and religious destiny of a government with "no prototype in any prior constitution." If the Federalist Papers of Madison, Hamilton, and Jay are among the best philosophical expositions of Americas form of government at its founding, The American Republic of Brownson ought to enjoy a similar evaluation as a philosophical exposition of the union restored after the Civil War. This assessment is strongly reinforced by a major new evaluation of Brownsons enduring geniusand continuing relevanceby noted political philosopher Peter Augustine Lawler. Lawlers introduction constitutes a mini-book in itself, and will enrich the encounter of modern readers with the achievement of Orestes Brownson, a highly original American mind.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2010
ISBN 10: 1935191888ISBN 13: 9781935191889
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Anthony Esolen.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006
ISBN 10: 1932236783ISBN 13: 9781932236781
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. As a global phenomenon, the scale and character of communism is only now coming into focus. The opening of formerly inaccessible archives and landmark books such as The Black Book of Communism have helped to establish empirically the extent and brutality of Communist totalitarianism. But what about Communist terror as it was personally experienced by the dissidents, the so-called obstructionists who stood in the way of the Communists efforts to create the new man of the socialist utopia?From the Gulag to the Killing Fields is another landmark volume-and the only one of its kind. Edited by renowned scholar of communism Paul Hollander, it gathers together more than forty dramatic personal memoirs of Communist violence and repression from political prisoners across the globe. From these compelling accounts several distinctive features of Communist political violence can be discerned. The most important, argues Hollander, is that communism was "violence with a higher purpose"-that is, it was devised and undertaken to create a historically superior social system that would not only abolish scarcity, exploitation, and inequality, but would also create a new and unique sense of community, social solidarity, and personal fulfillment.Nothing, of course, was allowed to stand in the way of this effort to radically and totally transform the human condition-least of all human beings. But, as Anne Applebaum notes in her foreword, human nature persisted: "Every person who entered the camps discovered qualities in themselves, both good and evil, that they hadnt previously known they had. Ultimately, that selfdiscovery is the true subject of most camp memoirs, and the true subject of this book."
Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2009
ISBN 10: 1935191179ISBN 13: 9781935191179
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. The suicidal proclivity of our time, writes the acclaimed philosopher J. Budziszewski, is to deny the obvious. Our hearts are riddled with desires that oppose their deepest longings, because we demand to have happiness on terms that make happiness impossible. Why? And what can we do about it?Budziszewski addresses these vital questions in his brilliantly persuasive new book, The Line Through the Heart. The answers can be discovered in an exploration of natural law-a venture that, with Budziszewski as our expert guide, takes us through politics, religion, ethics, law, philosophy, and more.Natural law, the author states plainly but provocatively, is a fact about human beings; as surely as we have hands and feet, we have the foundational principles of good and evil woven into the fabric of our minds. From this elemental fact emerges a natural law theory that unfolds as part of a careful study of the human person. Thus, Budziszewski shows, natural law forms a common ground for humanity.But this common ground is slippery. While natural law is truly an observable part of human nature, human beings are hell-bent-quite literally-on ignoring it. The mere mention of the obligations imposed on man by his nature will send him into a rage. In this sense, The Line Through the Heart explores natural law as not simply a fact and a theory but also a sign of contradiction.While investigating the natural law and its implications, Budziszewski boldly confronts-and offers a newly integrated view of-a wide range of contemporary issues, including abortion, evolution, euthanasia, capital punishment, the courts, and the ersatz state religion being built in the name of religious toleration.Written in Budziszewskis usual crystalline style, The Line Through the Heart makes clear that natural law is a matter of concern not merely to scholars; it touches how each of us lives, and how all of us live together. His profoundly important examination of this subject helps us make sense of why habits that run against our nature have become second nature, and why our world seems to be going mad.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006
ISBN 10: 1933859024ISBN 13: 9781933859026
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Softcover. Condition: Good. As the author of The Conservative Mind and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movements most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that Kirks was principally a literary and historical conservatism that refused to fit the irreducible complexity of human experience to the requirements of any ideological straitjacket. With The Essential Russell Kirk, literary critic George A. Panichas captures the breadth and depth of Kirks intellectual project by gathering together forty-four of the most masterful of Kirks essays, along with a unique chronology told in Kirks own words and a substantial introduction that articulates the deep humanism that animated Kirks philosophy. The result is a carefully assembled volume that gives us a fuller picture of an extraordinary man and writer, one whose labors had, and continue to have, remarkable repercussions on the American literary and political landscape.
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2024
ISBN 10: 1882926544ISBN 13: 9781882926541
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of Who Killed Homer? and Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleagured, disciplineclassicsand reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselvestheir careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scholarship, among other thingsas the progenitors of the crisis, and call for a return to academic populism, an approach characterized by accessible, unspecialized writing, selfless commitment to students and teaching, and respect for the legacy of freedom and democracy that the ancients bequeathed to the West.
Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2009
ISBN 10: 1935191594ISBN 13: 9781935191599
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2002
ISBN 10: 1882926714ISBN 13: 9781882926718
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2010
ISBN 10: 1935191896ISBN 13: 9781935191896
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Published by Brand: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1993
ISBN 10: 1882926013ISBN 13: 9781882926015
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