Garrison / Holston The Historical Mind

Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7844-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Timely and provocative asessment of various cultural, moral, and political problems in "post-constitutional" America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garrison, Justin D.

Holston, Ryan R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The New Humanism

1. What I Believe: Rousseau and Religion
Irving Babbitt

2. Power without Limits: The Allure of Political Idealism and the Crumbling of American Constitutionalism
Claes G. Ryn

Part II: Culture and Imagination

3. Russell Kirk and the Romance of Babbittianism
Bradley J. Birzer

4. The Pillars of Hercules: Babbitt, Warren, and the Dangers of Scientific Naturalism
Justin D. Garrison

5. Luminosity, Imagination, Truth: On Voegelin and Ryn
S. F. McGuire

Part III: Ethics and Character

6. Politics, Moral Judgment, and the Enlightenment Project
William F. Byrne

7. Natural Law, the Moral Imagination, and Prudent Exceptions
Robert C. Koons

8. Irving Babbitt and Christianity: A Response to T. S. Eliot
Ryan R. Holston

Part IV: America and Constitutional Spirit

9. Can Constitutions Preserve the Engendering Experiences of Order?
Michael P. Federici

10. On the Moral Necessity of Constitutionalism: Claes Ryn and Ethical Democracy
Bruce P. Frohnen

Part V: America, Humanism, and the World

11. "Let Things Be Called by Their Right Names": Difference as Constraint in American Exceptionalism
Richard M. Gamble

12. A Little Place and a Big Idea: The Temptation to Imperialism and the Loss of Republicanism
Justin B. Litke

13. Resistance and Renewal: Irving Babbitt and China
Zhang Yuan and Justin D. Garrison

Conclusion

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Justin D. Garrison is Associate Professor of Political Science at Roanoke College and the author of "An Empire of Ideals": The Chimeric Imagination of Ronald Reagan. Ryan R. Holston is Professor and Jonathan Myrick Daniels '61 Chair for Academic Excellence at Virginia Military Institute.