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Informationen zum Autor Michael Novak is a cofounder and former publisher of Crisis magazine, and a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Forbes. He has written more than 25 books, including The Fire of Invention: Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997). Novak lives in Washington DC. Brian C. Anderson is a research associate in social and political studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of Raymond Aron: The Recovery of the Political (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997). Klappentext Few writers have covered the intellectual terrain traversed by Michael Novak, who has written on theology, philosophy, political economy, and business theory. This book brings together many of Novak's crucial essays on "moral ecology": the ethos that must be cultivated and preserved if liberal democratic societies are to survive. Novak argues in defense of the free and virtuous society by examining the family, welfare reform, free markets, self-government, and the American founding. A series of remarkable intellectual studies on figures such as Jacques Maritain, St. Thomas Aquinas, and John Courtney Murray, along with an autobiographical essay by Novak and an introduction by Brian C. Anderson, complete On Cultivating Liberty, an indispensable book for anyone concerned about the future of the democratic project as we enter the third millennium. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part One: Liberty: The Virtue and the Institutions Chapter 3 Truth and Liberty Chapter 4 Seven Whig Amendments Chapter 5 How to Make a Republic Work Chapter 6 Boredom, Virtue and Democratic Capitalism (or) The End of History? Chapter 7 Civil Society and Self-Government Chapter 8 The Crisis of the Welfare State Chapter 9 In Praise of Bourgeois Virtues Part 10 Part Two: Liberty: The Tradition and Some of Its Heroes Chapter 11 The Catholic Whig Revisited Chapter 12 Thomas Aquinas v. Heretics Chapter 13 The Achievement of Jacques Maritain Chapter 14 Maritain and the Jews Chapter 15 Needing Niebuhr Again Chapter 16 Reinhold Niebuhr, Father of Neoconservatives Chapter 17 Twice Chosen: Irving Kristol as American Chapter 18 The Christian Philosophy of John Paul II Part 19 Part Three: Afterword Chapter 20 Errand into the Wilderness Chapter 21 A Reader's Guide...
