The historical mind : humanistic renewal in a post-constitutional age / Edited by Justin D. Garrison and Ryan R. Holston. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

What I believe : Rousseau and religion / Power without limits : the allure of political idealism and the crumbling of American constitutionalism / Russell Kirk and the romance of Babbittianism / The pillars of Hercules : Babbitt, Warren, and the dangers of scientific naturalism / Luminosity, imagination, truth : on Voegelin and Ryn / Politics, moral judgment, and the enlightenment project / Natural law, the moral imagination, and prudent exceptions / Irving Babbitt and Christianity : a response to T.S. Eliot / Can constitutions preserve engendering experience? / On the moral necessity of constitutionalism : Claes Ryn and ethical democracy / "Let things be called by their right names" : difference as constraint in American exceptionalism / A little place and a big idea : the temptation to imperialism and the loss of republicanism / Resistance and renewal : Irving Babbitt and China / Irving Babbitt -- Claes G. Ryn -- Bradley J. Birzer -- Justin D. Garrison -- S.F. McGuire -- William F. Byrne -- Robert C. Koons -- Ryan R. Holston -- Michael P. Federici -- Bruce P. Frohnen -- Richard M. Gamble -- Justin B. Litke -- Zhang Yuan and Justin D. Garrison.

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



9781438478449

2019049055


Political science--Philosophy.
Constitutional law--Philosophy.
Constitutional law--United States.
Humanism--United States.


Electronic Books.

JK31 / .H578 2020