Recently added articles from Humanitas:
Imperialism destroys the constitutional republic.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Because of its sober and realistic assuptions about human nature and the human condition, the American republic of the Constitutuion of 1789 is not designed to do the big things typical of empires. It is especially not designed to do that which has most characterized empire: conquer. When ...
'The last and brightest empire of time': Timothy Dwight and America as Voegelin's 'authoritative present,' 1771-1787.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Timothy Dwight (1752-1817) aspired to write epic poetry worthy of a great empire. At Yale College, he and his fellow "Connecticut Wits" intended, in historian Henry May's words, "to provide America and New England with a national literature, and in doing so to show the world that ...
On loving thy neighbor.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2007; ... <Pre> Loving thy neighbor is hard to do: that dirty, ignorant, stinking fellow Black or white, Hindu or Jew, requires you to be somewhat mellow. But if you don't do it, who will? It's really a question of love or kill. Rage is a feeling we should rarely use though perhaps ...
Burke's historical morality.(Edmund Burke)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... The precise meaning of the terms "historical understanding," "historical sense," or "historical consciousness" can vary greatly, but they are generally understood as referring to an awareness of the dependence of human existence on the development of events that have taken place in the ...
History for life: simms and Nietzsche compared.(William Gilmore Simms and Friedrich Nietzsche)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... In his biography of William Gilmore Simms John C. Guilds says of his subject that he had "a special fondness for history" and was, in Guilds's view at least, "the only American author of the nineteenth century to envision, design, initiate, and consummate an epic portrayal of the ...
Lyric poetry, the novel, and revolution: Milan Kundera's life is elsewhere.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Do novels or poems of high literary merit provide any particular guidance about the idea of revolution, or can we say only that different novels and poems express different points of view? Part of the issue, certainly, depends on how and where one draws the line in regard to the works ...
Homer's humor: laughter in the Iliad.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Mockery and Mirth --"if anyone examines more closely the lives of those sober gods in Homer ...he will find them all full of folly"--Erasmus. (1) The very subject of humor in Homer's Iliad might seem to be a bad joke. "Deep-browed Homer" has long been our laureate of ...
How the right's gone wrong.(Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right, by Paul Gottfried. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. 208 pp. $39.95. Former presidential speechwriter David Frum wrote an infamous piece in National Review, titled "Unpatriotic Conservatives," that tried to write ...
'The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor': the utopian as sadist.(Fyodor Dostoevsky)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. --George Orwell, "Reflections on Gandhi" The argument of Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor is simple: man is a weak, pitiful creature unable to achieve peace or happiness unless he submits to the rule ...
Goethe's Faust: poetry and philosophy at the crossroads.(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2007; ... 1. Philosophical Poets In lectures from 1910, subsequently published as Three Philosophical Poets, George Santayana provisionally placed Goethe among the philosophical poets. He had no reservation including Dante and Lucretius in this class of poets. Their major works situated ...
Political theology and the theology of politics: Carl Schmitt and medieval Christian political thought (1).
Mar 22, 2007; ... In societies where religion plays a strong and important role, the institutions of the society reflect the religion. Yet in societies where religion plays a more secondary role to say that all political concepts are secularized theological concepts is an overstatement. While Carl Schmitt ...
Burke's higher romanticism: politics and the sublime.
Mar 22, 2006;
Peter Viereck (1916-2006).(Obituary)
Mar 22, 2006
My Ninetieth Year.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2006;
Gate.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2006;
The legacy of Peter Viereck: his prose writings.
Mar 22, 2006;
Irving Babbitt, the moral imagination, and progressive education.
Mar 22, 2006;
Joseph Conrad's moral imagination.(Joseph Conrad: His Moral Vision)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006;
The tears of Priam: reflections on Troy and teaching ancient texts.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2006;
Richard Rorty's postmodern case for liberal democracy: a critique.
Mar 22, 2006;