The politically incorrect guide to western civilization, Anthony Esolen

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The politically incorrect guide to western civilization, Anthony Esolen

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Anthony Esolen

Instantiates

• The politically incorrect guide to western civilization

Publication

• Washington, D.C., Regnery Pub., 2008

Copyright

• ©2008

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"P.I.G. series"--Cover

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

• Athenian relativists
• Beauty is not merely in the eye of the beholder
• Universal Good
• State and the end of man
• Chapter 2
• Rome: An Empire of Tradition and Patriarchy
• 39
• Respecting your elders
• Father knows best
• Tradition's wisdom vs. democracy's fickleness
• Chapter 1
• Peace through strength
• Real reason Rome fell
• Chapter 3
• Israel: How God Changed the World
• 67
• A God above nature, not a nature god
• Not a political god, but the King of kings
• Knowing God yields science
• They that humble themselves shall be exalted
• A thousand years are as a day
• Ancient Greece: Love of Wisdom and Beauty
• Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews
• Peace of God that passeth understanding
• Chapter 4
• Early Church: Charity and Tolerance Are Born
• 97
• How Christianity saved the West
• Christianity brings equality and tolerance
• State, that pagan god
• How Christians elevated culture
• Truth about heretics
• 1
• Good News brings charity
• Chapter 5
• High Middle Ages: The Bright Ages
• 131
• Islam vs. civilization
• Warmer is better-someone tell Al Gore
• Ruggedly alive
• Bright Ages: Life in the cathedrals
• Drama's rebirth: Another fruit of Christianity
• PC myth: The Middle Ages were the Dark Ages
• Laws that cannot be amended
• When love and nature were richer
• PC trope: Dancing angels and pinheads
• Before PC: When intellectual curiosity could thrive
• Chapter 6
• Renaissance: It's Not What You Think
• 167
• PC myths about the Renaissance
• Is there a nature in this man?
• Honoring the past
• Shakespeare on his knees
• Athens: Better than the rest
• Where the Renaissance went wrong: Undermining authority
• Chapter 7
• Enlightenment: Liberty and Tyranny
• 203
• Will enslaved
• "Enlightenment" yields tyranny
• Ecrasez l'infame!
• Pilgrim Fathers
• Conservative Founders?
• America's forgotten models: Rome and Athens
• Father, not mother
• Saving reason from itself
• Rousseau and the State
• Samuel Johnson
• Chapter 8
• Nineteenth Century: Man Is a God; Man Is a Beast
• 243
• Romantics' new religion: Nature
• Worshipping man
• What the Industrial Revolution wrought
• Is there such a thing as bad art?
• Greek Isles effect
• Nietzsche: The honest atheist
• Conservative champions of human dignity
• Chapter 9
• Twentieth Century: A Century of Blood
• 281
• Walter Mitty, rugged individual
• Empire strikes back
• Health of the State, the poverty of the soul
• Art from the people; Art against the people
• Science without knowledge
• Tradition and the natural law
• Pill's bitter effects
• History can restore us

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ocn227570264

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23 cm

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xii, 340 pages

Isbn

9781596980594

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2008017807

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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909.09821 ES58 ; L ; XX-N ; SA ; C0808BT1(SI).

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u1443053

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• (Sirsi) 227570264
• (Sirsi) 227570264
• (OCoLC)227570264