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Timely and provocative asessment of various cultural, moral, and political problems in "post-constitutional" America.
America is increasingly defined not only by routine disregard for its fundamental laws, but also by the decadent character of its political leaders and citizens-widespread consumerism and self-indulgent behavior, cultural hedonism and anarchy, the coarsening of moral and political discourse, and a reckless interventionism in international relations. In The Historical Mind, various scholars argue that America's problems are rooted in its people's refusal to heed the lessons of historical experience and to adopt "constitutional" checks or self-imposed restraints on their cultural, moral, and political lives. Drawing inspiration from the humanism of Irving Babbitt and Claes G. Ryn, the contributors offer a timely and provocative assessment of the American present and contend that only a humanistic order guided by the wisdom of historical consciousness has genuine promise for facilitating fresh thinking about the renewal of American culture, morality, and politics.
Contents
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