On Cultivating Liberty

Reflections on Moral Ecology

AvMichael Novak,Brian C. Anderson

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

Del i serien Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Beskrivning

Few writers have covered the intellectual terrain traversed by Michael Novak, who has written on theology, philosophy, political economy, and business theory. This book brings together many of Novak's crucial essays on "moral ecology": the ethos that must be cultivated and preserved if liberal democratic societies are to survive. Novak argues in defense of the free and virtuous society by examining the family, welfare reform, free markets, self-government, and the American founding. A series of remarkable intellectual studies on figures such as Jacques Maritain, St. Thomas Aquinas, and John Courtney Murray, along with an autobiographical essay by Novak and an introduction by Brian C. Anderson, complete On Cultivating Liberty, an indispensable book for anyone concerned about the future of the democratic project as we enter the third millennium.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1999-01-07
Mått:125 x 196 x 27 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780847694051

Utforska kategorier

Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Michael Novak is a cofounder and former publisher of Crisis magazine, and a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Forbes. He has written more than 25 books, including The Fire of Invention: Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997). Novak lives in Washington DC.Brian C. Anderson is a research associate in social and political studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of Raymond Aron: The Recovery of the Political (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).

Recensioner i media

Michael Novak's concern over many years has been to ground the defense of capitalism in a long tradition of western moral reflection. This collection of essays presents this concern in a compact and highly lucid form. The book can be read with pleasure both by those familiar with Novak's earlier work and by those coming to his ideas for the first time.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part One: Liberty: The Virtue and the InstitutionsChapter 3 Truth and LibertyChapter 4 Seven Whig AmendmentsChapter 5 How to Make a Republic WorkChapter 6 Boredom, Virtue and Democratic Capitalism (or) The End of History?Chapter 7 Civil Society and Self-GovernmentChapter 8 The Crisis of the Welfare StateChapter 9 In Praise of Bourgeois VirtuesPart 10 Part Two: Liberty: The Tradition and Some of Its HeroesChapter 11 The Catholic Whig RevisitedChapter 12 Thomas Aquinas v. HereticsChapter 13 The Achievement of Jacques MaritainChapter 14 Maritain and the JewsChapter 15 Needing Niebuhr AgainChapter 16 Reinhold Niebuhr, Father of NeoconservativesChapter 17 Twice Chosen: Irving Kristol as AmericanChapter 18 The Christian Philosophy of John Paul IIPart 19 Part Three: AfterwordChapter 20 Errand into the WildernessChapter 21 A Reader’s Guide