The Politics Of Prudence
10 best books like The Politics Of Prudence (Russell Kirk): A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny, The Quest For Community: A Study In The Ethics Of Order And Freedom (Ics Series In Self Governance), God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics, The Thomas Paine Reader, The Political Writings of St. Augustine, The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition, The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being, The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America's Destiny
| Author | Patrick J. Buchanan |
| ISBN | 0895261596 |
If you think Pat is just an old-school right-wing blowhard, you might be surprised by this book. It's a history of US foreign policy that he uses to argue in favor of an American First approach to the world. Pat plausibly argues that america's pre-Wilsonian approach to the world was not isolationist,...
| Author | Robert A. Nisbet |
| ISBN | 1558150587 |
"The Quest for Community" stands among the most important social critiques ever written. The first book by the man the New York Times calls "one of our most original social thinkers", Robert Nisbet's study explores how individualism and statism have flourished while the primary sources of human community...
God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition
'What does it mean to be a human being?' Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compelling argument on the necessity and importance of philosophy. Because of a need to better understand Catholic philosophical thought, especially...
| Author | Christopher Lasch |
| ISBN | 0393307956 |
Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between two ideas: one is the idea of progress - an idea driven by the conviction that human desire is insatiable and requires ever larger production...
| Author | Thomas Paine |
| ISBN | 0140444963 |
This major collection demonstrates the extent to which Thomas Paine (1737—1809) was an inspiration to the Americans in their struggle for independence, a passionate supporter of the French Revolution and perhaps the outstanding English radical writer of his age. It contains all of Paine's key...
| Author | Augustine of Hippo |
| ISBN | 0895267047 |
Anyone with a better than cursory knowledge of politics knows that a people's deepest values - their religious values - are what determine whether a society will prosper or fail. And anyone with a more than cursory knowledge of history knows that there was once an entity called Christendom - a political...
| Author | E. Christian Kopff |
| ISBN | 1882926250 |
It's tremendously learned, and mostly well-written, and I want to agree with his message because I think a classics-heavy education is a great idea, but I disagree strongly with almost everything he says. His grand scheme seems to be teaching children Latin rather than social studies, and completely...
| Author | Richard Gamble |
| ISBN | 1933859253 |
Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition—the Great Tradition—of education in the West...
| Author | Anthony O'Hear |
| ISBN | 1933859784 |
The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. The eminent British philosopher Anthony O’Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as powerful, thrilling, erotic, politically astute,...
| Author | Wilhelm Röpke |
| ISBN | 1882926242 |
This classic book, by a long-dead and almost-forgotten German economist, is suddenly relevant again. I have had a copy on my bookshelf for thirty years, never read, and I was startled by how timely "A Humane Economy" is. Today, elements of Left and Right are ganging up to kick neoliberalism when it’s...
The American Intellectual Tradition: Volume II: 1865 to the Present
| Author | David A. Hollinger |
| ISBN | 0195183401 |
Revised and updated, the fifth edition of this now standard two-volume anthology brings together some of the most historically significant writings in American intellectual history. Uniquely comprehensive, The American Intellectual Tradition includes classic works in philosophy, religion,...
Rawls does an excellent job of explaining the core philosophers of western liberalism along with critiques by Marx and to a lesser extent Rousseau. Even thought I was familiar with each of these thinkers, Rawls helped me gain a firm grasp on each along with an understanding of the development of liberalism....
Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity
| Author | Stephen Toulmin |
| ISBN | 0226808386 |
In the seventeenth century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next three hundred years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of human endeavor, this vision...
First published in 1976, and revised in 1996, George H. Nash’s celebrated history of the postwar conservative intellectual movement has become the unquestioned standard in the field. This new edition, published in commemoration of the volume’s thirtieth anniversary,...
| Author | Richard M. Weaver |
| ISBN | 0226876802 |
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and offers a realistic remedy. He asserts that the world is intelligible and that man is free. The catastrophes of our age the catastrophes of our age are the product of unintelligent choice and the cure lies...
| Author | Robert H. Bork |
| ISBN | 0684843374 |
The development, over a period of thousands of years, of democracy --the idea that the people of a nation should ultimately rule themselves through laws made by elected representatives responsible to them-- has to rank as one of the major achievements of Western civilization. It's closely related...
| Author | Michael Oakeshott |
| ISBN | 0865970955 |
Rationalism in Politics,
first published in 1962, has established the late Michael Oakeshott as the leading conservative political theorist in modern Britain. This expanded collection of essays astutely points out the limits of "reason" in rationalist politics.
Oakeshott criticizes...
| Author | Herbert Spencer |
| ISBN | 0913966983 |
Spencer develops various specific disastrous ramifications of the wholesale substitution of the principle of compulsory cooperation—the statist principle—for the individualist principle of voluntary cooperation. His theme is that “there is in society . . . that beautiful self-adjusting...
The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
| Author | Martha C. Nussbaum |
| ISBN | 0691000522 |
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous...
The Death of Character: Moral Education in an Age Without Good or Evil
| Author | James Davison Hunter |
| ISBN | 0465031773 |
The Death of Character is a broad historical, sociological, and cultural inquiry into the moral life and moral education of young Americans based upon a huge empirical study of the children themselves. The children's thoughts and concerns-expressed here in their own words-shed a whole new light...
Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered
| Author | Joseph Pearce |
| ISBN | 1933859059 |
A Third of a century ago, E. F. Schumacher rang out a timely warning against the idolatry of giantism with his book Small Is Beautiful. Few books before or since have spoken so profoundly to urgent economic and social considerations. Humanity was lurching blindly in the wrong direction, argued Schumacher....
| Author | Eric Voegelin |
| ISBN | 1932236481 |
Very insightful, without being particularly helpful if one does not hold a belief in a transcendent order of being anchored in God(s)—that is, pretty much the entirety of those who populate the masses that Voegelin would wish to have turn away from their erroneous and destructive path. Difficult...
The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction
| Author | Akhil Reed Amar |
| ISBN | 0300082770 |
Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional...
| Author | Friedrich A. Hayek |
| ISBN | 0226320839 |
F. A. Hayek made many valuable contributions to the field of economics as well as to the disciplines of philosophy and politics. This volume represents the second of Hayek's comprehensive three-part study of the relations between law and liberty. Here, Hayek expounds his conviction that he continued...
| Author | Virginia Postrel |
| ISBN | 0684862697 |
Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by popular culture, and insecure in the face of economic change. The future, they tell us, is...
