Recently added articles from Humanitas:

American culture: a story.(Essay)

Mar 22, 2006; Frohnen, Bruce P. ... My goal in this essay is less to impart a specific teaching than to tell a story. This story, I first should point out, is not a myth made up for didactic purposes, as so many such stories tend to be. It is rather a true story, one rooted in things we know about history, and about America ...

Burke's higher romanticism: politics and the sublime.

Mar 22, 2006; Byrne, William F.

Peter Viereck (1916-2006).(Obituary)

Mar 22, 2006

My Ninetieth Year.(Poem)

Mar 22, 2006; Viereck, Peter

Gate.(Poem)

Mar 22, 2006; Viereck, Peter

The legacy of Peter Viereck: his prose writings.

Mar 22, 2006; Ryn, Claes G.

Irving Babbitt, the moral imagination, and progressive education.

Mar 22, 2006; Davis, Glenn A.

Joseph Conrad's moral imagination.(Joseph Conrad: His Moral Vision)(Book review)

Mar 22, 2006; Seaton, James

Mysticism in contemporary Islamic political thought: Orhan Pamuk and Abdolkarim Soroush.(Essay)

Mar 22, 2006; von Heyking, John ... <Pre> "You know, I've had enough of big ideas." (2) </Pre> Whether due to Western-style schemes of "development," Marxism, nationalism, secularism, or Islamism, the Islamic world has suffered its share of ideological activism. What these ideologies share is a "big idea," or ideology, ...

Michael Polanyi, Alasdair MacIntyre, and the role of tradition.(Essay)

Mar 22, 2006; Mitchell, Mark T. ... Introduction Modernity has reached a dead end. The optimism in which the modern world was conceived and nurtured has been replaced by a thoroughgoing skepticism that denies the possibility of making meaningful truth claims, especially when those claims bear on morality and ...

The tears of Priam: reflections on Troy and teaching ancient texts.(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2006; Dillon, James J.

John of Salisbury, the Policraticus, and political thought.(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2006; Taylor, Quentin ... Introduction Given his reputation as the most learned and literate man of his time, it is remarkable that John of Salisbury (ca.1120-1180) is not better known to the Western world. Granting the general "obscurity" of the Middle Ages, it remains odd that the man uniformly ...

Richard Rorty's postmodern case for liberal democracy: a critique.

Mar 22, 2006; Bragues, George

Locke the hermenaut and the mechanics of understanding.(Critical essay)

Mar 22, 2006; Berman, Michael P. ... <Pre> "Nothing that is said has its truth simply in itself, but refers instead backward and forward to what is unsaid." --H. G. Gadamer"The use of language is, by short sounds to signify with ease and dispatch general conceptions: wherein not only abundance of ...