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This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians,
and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to
the political left only later to reappraise or reject them. Their
reevaluation of their own previous positions reveals not only the
change in their own thought but also the societal changes in the
culture, economics, and politics to which they were reacting. By
exploring the evolution of the political thought of these
philosophers, this book draws connections among these thinkers and
schools and discovers the general trajectory of twentieth-century
political thinking in the West.
The main premise of Philosophical Perspective on Cinema is simple:
Can a visual medium such as cinema put in greater perspective
diverse aspects of human experience? Films are usually sorted by
genres, but by applying metaphysical/existential categories to
cinema, the author enables readers to reflect on the nature and
essence of existence by making life appear less transparent to
itself. Undoubtedly, the connection between sensual reality and
philosophical reflection is often glossed over when the emphasis is
placed on theoretical abstractions, and not life itself. While this
work is a reflection on the philosophy of existence, the author
embraces a practical approach to the metaphysical/existential
foundation of human existence.
Great statesmen and gentlemen, men of honor and rank, seem to be
phenomena of a bygone Aristocratic era. Aristocracies, which
emphasize rank, and value difference, quality, beauty, rootedness,
continuity, stand in direct contrast to democracies, which value
equality, autonomy, novelty, standardization, quantity, utility and
mobility. Is there any place for aristocratic values and virtues in
the modern democratic social and political order? This volume
consists of essays by political theorists, historians, and literary
theorists that explore this question in the works of aristocratic
thinkers, both ancient and modern. The volume includes analyses of
aristocratic virtues, interpretations of aristocratic assemblies
and constitutions, both historic and contemporary, as well as
critiques of liberal virtues and institutions. Essays on Tacitus,
Hobbes, Burke, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, as well as some lesser known
figures, such as Henri de Boulainvilliers, John Randolph of
Roanoke, Louis de Bonald, Konstantin Leontiev, Jose Ortega y
Gasset, Richard Weaver, and the Eighth Duke of Northumberland,
explore ways of preserving and adapting the salutary aspects of the
aristocratic ethos to the needs of modern liberal societies.
This book examines key twentieth-century philosophers, theologians,
and social scientists who began their careers with commitments to
the political left only later to reappraise or reject them. Their
reevaluation of their own previous positions reveals not only the
change in their own thought but also the societal changes in the
culture, economics, and politics to which they were reacting. By
exploring the evolution of the political thought of these
philosophers, this book draws connections among these thinkers and
schools and discovers the general trajectory of twentieth-century
political thinking in the West.
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