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Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment - Where History and Literature Intersect (Paperback)
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Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment - Where History and Literature Intersect (Paperback)
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The great critic Peter Viereck, in a volume that both reproduces an
earlier effort and presents an entirely new work on the
intersection of history and literature, offers a biting critique of
the American desire for normalcy that leads to a culture of the
surrender of personality. In contrast to this voluntary thought
control process is the unadjusted person. Cast in the mold of great
individualists from Thomas More to Friedrich Nietzsche, such a
person responds to fundamental values of conscience rather than
conformity built exclusively on ego gratification and icon worship.
Viereck's book is a stinging critique of the liberal presumption of
a monopoly in critical thought. He argues to the contrary, that
most varieties of liberal expression offer little else than the
common platitude dressed up as critique. In such a cultural
environment, conservatism is the skeleton in the liberal closet.
The virtue of conservatism is that in its very stress on liberty as
dependent on tradition and law, it permits the human being an
opportunity to test all transient things by the touchstone of all
lasting ideas. "Unadjusted Man" cuts deep and in many directions:
against left totalitarian regimes of Europe and right wannabes like
McCarthyism in America. For Viereck, the art of conserving is not
an embrace of utopias to come or empires that were, but retaining
the sense of individuality over against the senselessness of the
"massman." Civil liberties in this approach are a right to
non-conspiratorial dissent informed by fundamental values. The new
material is presented unabashedly--without an attempt to rewrite
personal history, and with an admission that not every prediction
made in the original edition has come to fruition. That said, the
underlying themes of the original are not so much repeated as
expanded upon. For those seeking a work in the classic mold of
conservatism, rather than the strident reactionary views that have
come to dominate much of the conservative dialogue, this will be a
special book, a special entrance to the mind of a great figure in
American culture wars of present as well as past.
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