Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology

Peter Viereck, poet and historian, is one of the principle theoreticians of conservatism in modern American political thought

Author: Peter Viereck
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/30/2004
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.26w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780765805768

About the Author
Viereck, Peter: -

Peter Viereck (1916-2006) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, critic, and historian. He held the Kenan Chair in History at Mount Holyoke College and was known as one of America's early leaders of conservatism. He was the recipient of Guggenheim fellowships both in history and poetry. In addition to his contributions to Poetry Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly, his many books include Inner Liberty: The Stubborn Grit in the Machine; Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler;and Conservative Thinkers: From John Adams to Winston Churchill.Ryn, Claes G.: -

Claes G. Ryn is professor of politics at the Catholic University of America where he was chairman of his department. He has taught also at the University of Virginia and Georgetown University. He is chairman of the National Humanities Institute and editor of the journal Humanitas. In 2000 he gave the Distinguished Foreign Scholar Lectures at Beijing University His many books include A Common Human Ground, Will, Imagination, and Reason (2nd., exp. ed. published by Transaction), and Democracy and the Ethical Life.