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The Basic Works of Aristotle
by Aristotle, translated by Various
A collection of Aristotle's most important works.
- Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by English Dominican Province
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The American Republic
by Orestes A. Brownson
Orestes Brownson's The American Republic was first published in 1865. The nation had just survived a Civil War that threatened to destroy the very life of a country less than one hundred years old. In this magisterial work, Brownson emerges…
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The End of the Modern World
by Romano Guardini
An extended inquiry into the nature of the modern age, as well as an historical, philosophical, and theological analysis of modernity's prospects in the next millennium. This expanded edition includes the original text of The End of the Modern World…
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Tolerance in the 21st Century: Prospects and Challenges
by Gerson Moreno-Riano
Tolerance in the 21st Century investigates some of the key philosophical and practical dilemmas surrounding the implementation and realization of tolerance in the 21st century.
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Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering A Tradition Can Improve Our Schools (with a Curriculum for Today's Students)
by Robert E. Proctor
Defining the Humanities traces the history of the tradition of the liberal arts, from the origin of the term by Cicero (studii humanitatis), through Petrarca and the Italian Renaissance, to the American founding.
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A Student's Guide to Philosophy
by Ralph M. McInerny
A Student's Guide to Philosophy examines these questions: Who is a philosopher? Can philosophical thought be avoided? What have philosophers written over the ages? And why should we care? In this critical essay, these and other questions are posed and…
- Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism by Stephen Holmes
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Interpreting Tocqueville's Democracy In America
by Ken Masugi
Essays by James Ceaser, Delba Winthrop, Peter Lawler, Ralph Hancock, William Kristol and others.
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New Science of Politics
by Eric Voegelin
This book is Eric Voegelin's best-known work, where he introduced his concepts of cosmological, anthropological, and soteriological symbolizations of truth in contradistinction to Gnosticism. The book traces the development of modernity and its paradoxical condition of an age that advances…
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The Restitution of Man
by Michael D. Aeschliman
A trained philosopher and intellectual historian as well as a writer of genius, C. S. Lewis was one of the most lucid, profound, and eloquent critics of the reductive scientific materialism that has helped make the twentieth century so destructive…
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Crowd Culture: An Examination of the American Way of Life
by Bernard Iddings Bell
It is truly unfortunate that, until now, the work of Canon Bernard Iddings Bell has been out of print for some time. For Bell's cultural criticism was an important impetus to the formation of the postwar traditionalist conservative synthesis, drawing…
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Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement
by Philippe Bénéton, translated by Ralph C. Hancock
For most of our contemporaries, to speak of modernity is to think immediately of liberty, equality, and democracy-and to assume that all is well. But things are not so simple. For while the culture of modernity has spread gradually throughout…
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Critics of the Enlightenment: Readings in the French Counter-Revolutionary Tradition
by Christopher Olaf Blum, translated by Philippe Bénéton
For the Anglo-American world, Edmund Burke is the touchstone of counter-revolutionary thought, but in this volume, Christopher Olaf Blum shows that in attempting to vindicate the principles that had, at its best, animated the Old Regime, and in critiquing the…
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Orestes A. Brownson: Works in Political Philosophy, vol. 2: 1828-1841
by Orestes A. Brownson
The essays selected for this volume represent the earliest phase of the American critic Orestes Brownson's literary career. They span over a decade of work, from the early philosophical and theological reflections of the late 1820s, through the Transcendentalist phase…
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The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited
by John Carroll
Humanism built Western civilization as we know it today. Its achievements include the liberation of the individual, democracy, universal rights, and widespread prosperity and comfort. Its ambassadors are the heroes of modern culture-Erasmus, Holbein, Shakespeare, Velázquez, Descartes, Kant, Freud. Those…
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Recalling Education
by Hugh Mercer Curtler
In this searching and relentlessly logical critique, a distinguished professor of philosophy argues that the purpose of education-enabling students to achieve intellectual autonomy-has been largely forgotten. Hugh Mercer Curtler challenges prevailing myths about education; clarifies the distinction between education and…
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Uncommon Dissent: Intellectuals Who Find Darwinism Unconvincing
by William A. Dembski
Recent years have seen the rise to prominence of ever more sophisticated philosophical and scientific critiques of the ideas marketed under the name of Darwinism. In Uncommon Dissent, mathematician and philosopher William A. Dembski brings together essays by leading intellectuals…
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The Unlearned Lessons of the Twentieth Century: An Essay on Late Modernity
by Chantal Delsol
In The Unlearned Lessons of the Twentieth Century, the sequel to Icarus Fallen, published by ISI Books in 2003, Chantal Delsol maintains that the age in which we live-late modernity-calls into question most of the truths and beliefs bequeathed to…
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Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World
by Chantal Delsol
It would be difficult to find a more perceptive description of Western man and the world he now inhabits than that provided by Chantal Delsol in Icarus Fallen: The Search for Meaning in an Uncertain World. With style and lucidity…
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The Soul and Barbed Wire: An Introduction to Solzhenitsyn
by Edward E. Ericson and Alexis Klimoff
Authored by two eminent Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn scholars, The Soul and Barbed Wire is the first and only book to offer both a detailed biography and a comprehensive appraisal of the literary achievement of the Nobel prize-winning author who became…
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Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order
by Michael P. Federici
Voegelin's philosophical project was to restore order in human souls and human societies in a century of civilizational catastrophe. For Voegelin, the "crisis of the West," reflected in the horrific wars and social chaos of the twentieth century, was the…
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Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race
by Romano Guardini
This book collects a fascinating series of letters written by theologian-philosopher Romano Guardini in the mid-1920s in which he works out for the first time his sense of the challenges to humanity in a culture increasingly dominated by machines. With…
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Rallying The Really Human Things : Moral Imagination In Politics Literature & Everyday Life
by Vigen Guroian
For Vigen Guroian, contemporary culture is distinguished by its relentless assault on the moral imagination. In the stories it tells us, in the way it has degraded courtship and sexualized our institutions of higher education, in the ever-more-radical doctrines of…
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The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World
by Russell Hittinger
In the book's first section, Hittinger defines the natural law, considers its proper relationship to moral theology and the positive law, and explains how and when judges should be guided by natural law considerations. Then, in the book's second section…
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The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Unquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command
by James Kalb
When it comes to liberalism, the usual story in postwar America is one of decline, accompanied by the subplot of conservatism's ascendance. But take a longer view-look beyond and below politics-and it is the unchallenged triumph of liberalism and…
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Permanent Things: Toward the Recovery of a More Human Scale at the End of the Twentieth Century
by Michael H. Macdonald and Andrew A. Tadie
The essays gathered in Permanent Things remind us that some of the twentieth century's most imaginative minds - G. K. Chesterton, T.S. Elliot, C.S Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and Evelyn Waugh - were profoundly at odds with the secularist spirit of…
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Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Law
by Edward B. McLean
Common Truths brings together the best minds writing on one of today's most important and heated issues-natural law. This diverse group of thinkers address the theoretical, historical, and-in a section of particular importance-the legislative and juridical aspects of natural law.…
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Things that Count: Essays Moral and Theological
by Gilbert Meilaender
"How should we live? What kind of people should we be? What meaning is there in our day-to-day existence? What are the truly important things? We live in turbulent times. Torrents of information, fractured families, and politically correct rhetoric color…
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Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology
by Kenneth Minogue
The term "ideology" can cover almost any set of ideas, but its power to bewitch political activists results from its strange logic. It is part philosophy, part science, and part spiritual revelation, all tied together in leading to a…
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Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing
by Mark T. Mitchell
The polymath Michael Polanyi first made his mark as a physical chemist, but his interests gradually shifted to economics, politics, and philosophy, in which field he would ultimately propose a revolutionary theory of knowledge that grew out of his firsthand…
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In Defense of Religious Liberty
by David Novak
In Defense of Religious Liberty contains David Novak's vigorous-and paradoxical-argument that the primacy of divine law is the best foundation for a secular, multicultural democracy. Novak presents his claim, which will astound both liberal and conservative advocates of democracy…
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The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature
by Anthony O'Hear
The Odyssey, Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. The eminent British philosopher Anthony O'Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as powerful, thrilling…
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Restoring The Meaning of Conservatism: Writings from Modern Age
by George A. Panichas
Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism collects those writings of eminent literary scholar and critic George A. Panichas which appeared in the quarterly Modern Age between 1965 and 2005. Panichas became the editor of Modern Age, founded by Russell Kirk in…
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Henry Paolucci: Selected Writings on Literature and the Arts; Science and Astronomy; Law, Government, and Political Philosophy
by Henry Paolucci
During his lifetime, Henry Paolucci taught and wrote in several academic disciplines. The variety of subject presented in this volume bears testimony to Professor Paolucci's wide range of interests and provides an impressive sampling of Professor Paolucci's comprehensive approach to…
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Tradition: Concept and Claim
by Josef Pieper, translated by E. Christian Kopff
Josef Pieper's Tradition: Concept and Claim analyzes tradition as an idea and as a living reality in the lives and languages of ordinary people. In the modern world of constant, unrelenting change, tradition, says Pieper, is that which must…
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The Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking
by James V. Schall S.J
In The Life of the Mind, Georgetown University's James V. Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take a special delight and pleasure in simply knowing. Because we have not only bodies but…
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A Theory of Architecture
by Nikos A. Salingaros
More than a decade in the making, this is a textbook of architecture rich with design techniques and useful for every architect whether a first-year students or experienced practicing architects. The book teaches the reader how to design by adapting…
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Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God's-Eye View
by RJ Snell
A defense of realism based in a Thomistic "phenomenology" against the anti-realism of Richard Rorty.
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Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher
by Peter J. Stanlis
Robert Frost is by far the most celebrated major American poet of the twentieth century. In part, this is because his poetry seems, on the surface, to be so accessible, even homey. But Frost was not just a powerful writer…
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Science, Politics and Gnosticism: An Essay on Late Modernity
by Eric Voegelin
First published in 1968, Science, Politics and Gnosticism comprises two essays by Eric Voegelin (1901–85), arguably one of the most provocative and influential political philosophers of the last century. In these essays, Voegelin contends that certain modern movements, including positivism…
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The New Religious Humanists: A Reader
by Gregory Wolfe
The New Religious Humanists: A Reader brings together a noteworthy group of distinguished scholars and authors who seek to heal our cultural divisions with insights from the Judeo-Christian humanist tradition. Contributors such as Leon Kass, Robert Royal, Os Guinness, Wilfred…