Revisions and dissents : essays /

Paul Gottfried's critical engagement with political correctness is well known. The essays in Revisions and Dissents focus on a range of topics in European intellectual and political history, social theory, and the history of modern political movements. With subjects as varied as Robert Nisbet,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gottfried, Paul (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Dekalb [Illinois] : Northern Illinois University Press 2017.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv177tdnh
Table of Contents:
  • Reminiscences
  • Robert Nisbet : conservative sociologist
  • Defining right and left
  • The problem of historical connections
  • Liberal democracy as a God term
  • Origins of the state
  • Reexamining the conservative legacy
  • Whig history revisited
  • The European Union election, 2014
  • The English Constitution reconsidered
  • Redefining classes
  • Did Mussolini have a Pope?
  • Heidegger and Strauss : a comparative study
  • Explaining Trump.