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Book SynopsisThis volume presents Aurel Kolnai's major writings in political philosophy, writings which explore Kolnai's critique of progressive or egalitarian democracy.
Trade ReviewThis volume of Kolnai's essays offers a searching critique of political utopianism and casts a penetrating eye on liberal democracy's own illiberal and potentially self-destructive tendencies. * Perspectives on Political Science *
[This] book . . . gives us a clearer and more familiar insight into a thinker who was not well-known in his time but whose importance may yet prove to be significant. -- James V. Schall, S.J., Georgetown University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Editor's Note Chapter 3 The Recovery of the Common World: An Introduction to the Moral and Political Reflection of Aurel Kolnai Part 4 "Liberty Under God" vs. the "Self-Sovereignty" of Democratic Man Chapter 5 Privilege and Liberty (1949) Chapter 6 The Meaning of the "Common Man" (1949) Chapter 7 Three Riders of the Apocalypse (1950) Part 8 The Critique of Utopianism Chapter 9 The Utopian Mind (1960) Part 10 The Meaning of Conservatism Chapter 11 Conservative and Revolutionary Ethos (1972) Chapter 12 Conservatism and the Natural Order of Things: A Review of Michael Oakeshott's Rationalism in PoliticsI (1965) Part 13 Christianity and Democracy Chapter 14 Between Christ and the Idols of Modernity: A Review of Jacques Maritain's Man and the StateI (1951) Chapter 15 Index
