Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals

Informationen zum Autor Peter Viereck Klappentext In this classic volume, written at the height of the Cold War, with a new preface of 2006, Peter Viereck, one of the foremost intellectual spokesmen of modern conservatism, examines the differing responses of American and European intellectuals to the twin threats of Nazism and Soviet communism Zusammenfassung In this classic volume, written at the height of the Cold War, with a new preface of 2006, Peter Viereck, one of the foremost intellectual spokesmen of modern conservatism, examines the differing responses of American and European intellectuals to the twin threats of Nazism and Soviet communism Inhaltsverzeichnis One: Specter and Halos: The Fundamental Assumptions; Two: The Table Talk of Gaylord Babbitt; Three: Vignettes on Thin Ice; Four: The Nature of the Crisis; Five: Russia and Peace; Six: Lest We Forget: Fascism Revisited; Seven: The Nature of Freedom; Eight: Bait the Baiters; Nine: Which Kind of Conservatism?; Ten: Free Dissent Versus Conspiratorial Dissent: Some Further Distinctions; Eleven: The Radical Right From McCarthy Through Goldwater, 1953-65

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Peter Viereck, Viereck Peter
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.09.2006
• EAN: 9781412806091
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-0609-1
• Pages: 352
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Théories politiques et histoire des idées; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements