Claes G. Ryn – författare & böcker

America the Virtuous

The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

1 748 kr

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Urged on by a powerful ideological and political movement, George W. Bush committed the United States to a quest for empire. American values and principles were universal, he asserted, and should guide the transformation of the world. Claes Ryn sees this drive for virtuous empire as the triumph of forces that in the last several decades acquired decisive influence in both the American parties, the foreign policy establishment, and the media.Public intellectuals like William Bennett, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Michael Novak, Richard Perle, and Norman Podhoretz argued that the United States was an exceptional nation and should bring "democracy," "freedom," and "capitalism" to countries not yet enjoying them. Ryn finds the ideology of American empire strongly reminiscent of the French Jacobinism of the eighteenth century. He describes the drive for armed world hegemony as part of a larger ideological whole that both expresses and aggravates a crisis of democracy and, more generally, of American and Western civilization. America the Virtuous sees the new Jacobinism as symptomatic of America shedding an older sense of the need for restraints on power. Checks provided by the US Constitution have been greatly weakened with the erosion of traditional moral and other culture.

Democracy and the Ethical Life

Philosophy of Politics and Community

AvClaes G. Ryn

Häftad, Engelska, 1990

379 kr

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Common Human Ground

Universality and Particularity in a Multicultural World

AvClaes G. Ryn

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

211 kr

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A great challenge of the twenty-first century is the danger of conflict between persons, peoples, and cultures, among and within societies. In A Common Human Ground, Claes Ryn explores the nature of this problem and sets forth a theory about what is necessary for peaceful relations to be possible.Many in the Western world trust in 'democracy,' 'capitalism,' 'liberal tolerance,' 'scientific progress,' or 'general enlightenment' to handle this problem. Although each of these, properly defined, may contribute toward alleviating disputes, Ryn argues that the problem is much more complex and demanding than is usually recognized. He reasons that, most fundamentally, good relations among individuals and nations have moral and cultural preconditions.What can predispose them to mutual respect and peace? One Western philosophical tradition, for which Plato set the pattern, maintains that the only way to genuine unity is for historical diversity to yield to universality. The implication of this view for a multicultural world would be a peace that requires that cultural distinctiveness be effaced as far as possible and replaced with a universal culture. A very different Western philosophical tradition denies the existence of universality altogether. It is represented today by postmodernist multiculturalism-a view that leaves unanswered the question as to how conflict between diverse groups might be averted.Ryn questions both of these traditions, arguing for the potential union of universality and particularity. He contends that the two need not be enemies, but in fact need each other. Cultivating individual and national particularities is potentially compatible with strengthening and enriching our common humanity. This volume embraces the notion of universality, while at the same time historicizing it.Using wide-ranging examples, Ryn presents a firmly sustained and systematic argument centering on this central issue. His approach is interdisciplinary, discussing not only political ideas, but also fiction, drama, and other arts. Scholarly and philosophical, but not specialized, this book will appeal to general readers as well as intellectuals.

Philosophy of Paul Elmer More

The Ethical Basis of Life and Letters

AvFolke Leander,Eric Adlerm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

778 kr

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Folke Leander (1910-1981) was a prolific and internationally known Swedish philosopher. He is best known in the United States as an explicator of the New Humanism, an informal movement of literary and cultural criticism founded by Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) and Irving Babbitt (1865-1933). Leander’s manuscript for The Philosophy of Paul Elmer More was completed in the early 1970s, but because of the academic environment at the time and the book’s special philosophical focus, Leander was unable to find a publisher. Since then, the work existed only as a typescript, a copy of which he left with Claes G. Ryn, his former student and collaborator, in the hope that one day in more favorable intellectual circumstances it might be published. Leander is rare among the scholars of the New Humanism for his first-rate philosophical training, depth of insight, and clarity of expression. In The Philosophy of Paul Elmer More he grapples carefully and precisely with the most fundamental tenets of the New Humanism. Although very supportive of the movement, Leander provides essential critiques of its contentions—and even improves upon some of them in crucial respects. In a series of concise, limpid chapters, he explains and assesses such fundamental—but often hazily understood—Humanist concepts as the “inner check,” “naturalism,” and “the higher will.” The result is a book essential for anyone who wants to understand the New Humanism.

A Desperate Man

AvClaes G. Ryn

Inbunden, Engelska

815 kr

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A Desperate Man

AvClaes G. Ryn

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

522 kr

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Will, Imagination, and Reason

Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality

AvClaes G. Ryn

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

2 402 kr

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Will, Imagination, and Reason sets forth a new understanding of reality and knowledge with far-reaching implications for the study of man and society. Employing a systematic approach, Claes Ryn goes to the philosophical depths to rethink and reconstitute the epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. He shows that will and imagination, together, constitute our basic outlook on life and that reason derives its material and general orientation from the interaction between them.The imaginative master-minds novelists, poets, composers, painters, and others powerfully affect the sensibility and direction of society. Sometimes a distorting, self-serving willfulness at the base of their visions draws civilization, including reason, into dangerous illusion. More penetrating and balanced vision and rationality spring from a different quality of will. Ryn explains the kind of interplay between will, imagination, and reason that is conducive to a deepened sense of reality and to intellectual understanding. He argues that human life and self-knowledge are inescapably historical. In developing his dialectical view of intellect, he draws from Irving Babbitt, Benedetto Croce, and other philosophers to refute positivistic, formalistic, and ahistorical theories of knowledge and to develop his alternative.Advancing a systematic epistemological argument, Ryn throws much new light on the nature of reason but also on central issues of ethics and aesthetics. This trenchant and original work is indispensable to philosophers, social, political and cultural theorists, literary scholars, and historians.

Will, Imagination, and Reason

Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality

AvClaes G. Ryn

E-bok

Engelska, 2018

811 kr

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Will, Imagination, and Reason sets forth a new understanding of reality and knowledge with far-reaching implications for the study of man and society. Employing a systematic approach, Claes Ryn goes to the philosophical depths to rethink and reconstitute the epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. He shows that will and imagination, together, constitute our basic outlook on life and that reason derives its material and general orientation from the interaction between them.

The imaginative master-minds novelists, poets, composers, painters, and others powerfully affect the sensibility and direction of society. Sometimes a distorting, self-serving willfulness at the base of their visions draws civilization, including reason, into dangerous illusion. More penetrating and balanced vision and rationality spring from a different quality of will. Ryn explains the kind of interplay between will, imagination, and reason that is conducive to a deepened sense of reality and to intellectual understanding. He argues that human life and self-knowledge are inescapably historical. In developing his dialectical view of intellect, he draws from Irving Babbitt, Benedetto Croce, and other philosophers to refute positivistic, formalistic, and ahistorical theories of knowledge and to develop his alternative.

Advancing a systematic epistemological argument, Ryn throws much new light on the nature of reason but also on central issues of ethics and aesthetics. This trenchant and original work is indispensable to philosophers, social, political and cultural theorists, literary scholars, and historians.

Will, Imagination, and Reason

Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality

AvClaes G. Ryn

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2018

841 kr

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Will, Imagination, and Reason sets forth a new understanding of reality and knowledge with far-reaching implications for the study of man and society. Employing a systematic approach, Claes Ryn goes to the philosophical depths to rethink and reconstitute the epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. He shows that will and imagination, together, constitute our basic outlook on life and that reason derives its material and general orientation from the interaction between them.

The imaginative master-minds novelists, poets, composers, painters, and others powerfully affect the sensibility and direction of society. Sometimes a distorting, self-serving willfulness at the base of their visions draws civilization, including reason, into dangerous illusion. More penetrating and balanced vision and rationality spring from a different quality of will. Ryn explains the kind of interplay between will, imagination, and reason that is conducive to a deepened sense of reality and to intellectual understanding. He argues that human life and self-knowledge are inescapably historical. In developing his dialectical view of intellect, he draws from Irving Babbitt, Benedetto Croce, and other philosophers to refute positivistic, formalistic, and ahistorical theories of knowledge and to develop his alternative.

Advancing a systematic epistemological argument, Ryn throws much new light on the nature of reason but also on central issues of ethics and aesthetics. This trenchant and original work is indispensable to philosophers, social, political and cultural theorists, literary scholars, and historians.

America the Virtuous

The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire

AvClaes G. Ryn

E-bok

Engelska, 2017

858 kr

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Urged on by a powerful ideological and political movement, George W. Bush committed the United States to a quest for empire. American values and principles were universal, he asserted, and should guide the transformation of the world. Claes Ryn sees this drive for virtuous empire as the triumph of forces that in the last several decades acquired decisive influence in both the American parties, the foreign policy establishment, and the media.Public intellectuals like William Bennett, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Michael Novak, Richard Perle, and Norman Podhoretz argued that the United States was an exceptional nation and should bring "democracy," "freedom," and "capitalism" to countries not yet enjoying them. Ryn finds the ideology of American empire strongly reminiscent of the French Jacobinism of the eighteenth century. He describes the drive for armed world hegemony as part of a larger ideological whole that both expresses and aggravates a crisis of democracy and, more generally, of American and Western civilization. America the Virtuous sees the new Jacobinism as symptomatic of America shedding an older sense of the need for restraints on power. Checks provided by the US Constitution have been greatly weakened with the erosion of traditional moral and other culture.

America the Virtuous

The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire

AvClaes G. Ryn

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2017

855 kr

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Urged on by a powerful ideological and political movement, George W. Bush committed the United States to a quest for empire. American values and principles were universal, he asserted, and should guide the transformation of the world. Claes Ryn sees this drive for virtuous empire as the triumph of forces that in the last several decades acquired decisive influence in both the American parties, the foreign policy establishment, and the media.Public intellectuals like William Bennett, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Michael Novak, Richard Perle, and Norman Podhoretz argued that the United States was an exceptional nation and should bring "democracy," "freedom," and "capitalism" to countries not yet enjoying them. Ryn finds the ideology of American empire strongly reminiscent of the French Jacobinism of the eighteenth century. He describes the drive for armed world hegemony as part of a larger ideological whole that both expresses and aggravates a crisis of democracy and, more generally, of American and Western civilization. America the Virtuous sees the new Jacobinism as symptomatic of America shedding an older sense of the need for restraints on power. Checks provided by the US Constitution have been greatly weakened with the erosion of traditional moral and other culture.

America the Virtuous

The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire

AvClaes G. Ryn

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

717 kr

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Urged on by a powerful ideological and political movement, George W. Bush committed the United States to a quest for empire. American values and principles were universal, he asserted, and should guide the transformation of the world. Claes Ryn sees this drive for virtuous empire as the triumph of forces that in the last several decades acquired decisive influence in both the American parties, the foreign policy establishment, and the media.Public intellectuals like William Bennett, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Michael Novak, Richard Perle, and Norman Podhoretz argued that the United States was an exceptional nation and should bring "democracy," "freedom," and "capitalism" to countries not yet enjoying them. Ryn finds the ideology of American empire strongly reminiscent of the French Jacobinism of the eighteenth century. He describes the drive for armed world hegemony as part of a larger ideological whole that both expresses and aggravates a crisis of democracy and, more generally, of American and Western civilization. America the Virtuous sees the new Jacobinism as symptomatic of America shedding an older sense of the need for restraints on power. Checks provided by the US Constitution have been greatly weakened with the erosion of traditional moral and other culture.

Will, Imagination, and Reason

Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality

AvClaes G. Ryn

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

731 kr

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Will, Imagination, and Reason sets forth a new understanding of reality and knowledge with far-reaching implications for the study of man and society. Employing a systematic approach, Claes Ryn goes to the philosophical depths to rethink and reconstitute the epistemology of the humanities and social sciences. He shows that will and imagination, together, constitute our basic outlook on life and that reason derives its material and general orientation from the interaction between them.The imaginative master-minds—novelists, poets, composers, painters, and others—powerfully affect the sensibility and direction of society. Sometimes a distorting, self-serving willfulness at the base of their visions draws civilization, including reason, into dangerous illusion. More penetrating and balanced vision and rationality spring from a different quality of will. Ryn explains the kind of interplay between will, imagination, and reason that is conducive to a deepened sense of reality and to intellectual understanding. He argues that human life and self-knowledge are inescapably historical. In developing his dialectical view of intellect, he draws from Irving Babbitt, Benedetto Croce, and other philosophers to refute positivistic, formalistic, and ahistorical theories of knowledge and to develop his alternative.Advancing a systematic epistemological argument, Ryn throws much new light on the nature of reason but also on central issues of ethics and aesthetics. This trenchant and original work is indispensable to philosophers, social, political and cultural theorists, literary scholars, and historians.

Claes G Ryn, Patrik Magnusson, Marika Formgren, Anna Lindén, Tanja Bergkvist, Inger Enkvist, Ilan Sadé, Mons Krabbe, Dick Erixon, Rolf K Nilsson, Henrik Alexandersson, Peter Stilbs, Stig-Björn Ljunggren, Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Anders Edwardsson, Karl Gustel Wärnberg, Jan Tullberg, Henrik L Barvå, Gunnar Sandelin - Haveriet : Den humanitära stormaktens fall, Inbunden

Haveriet : Den humanitära stormaktens fall

AvClaes G Ryn,Patrik Magnussonm. fl.

Inbunden, Svenska, 2016

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337 kr

INNEHÅLL: Sveriges kulturradikala experiment, Svensk migration – då, nu och i framtiden, Myten om invandringens demografiska fördel, Mediernas svek mot den inhemska underklassen, Högerpopulismen i Sverige, Kampen om Västerlandets själ, Hur ska väst förhålla sig till islam?, Normlösa subkulturer formar inget samhälle, Nödvändigt att slå vakt om de sociala gränserna, Vikten av inre och yttre gränsskydd, Vi är alla offer för diskriminering – till somligas förtjusning, Genusvansinne och fördumningsindustri, Tabun i skolpolitiken, Övervakningssamhället – den som är oskyldig har allt att frukta, Att styra klimatet – eller att styra via klimatet, Konstitutionell monarki – den bästa grunden för demokrati, EU underminerar demokratin, Att förlora USA som bästa vän. FÖRFATTARNA: • Claes G Ryn – Professor i statsvetenskap vid Catholic University of America i Washington D.C. • Patrik Magnusson – Pol.Mag. Gymnasielärare i samhällskunskap och historia • Marika Formgren – Journalist och tidigare borgerlig ledarskribent • Anna Lindén – Präst, teolog och krönikör • Tanja Bergkvist – Filosofie doktor i matematik • Inger Enkvist – Professor emerita i spanska vid Lunds universitet • Ilan Sadé – Chefsjurist och ordförande för Medborgerlig samling • Mons Krabbe – Säkerhetspolitisk analytiker och samhällsdebattör • Dick Erixon – Chefredaktör för Samtiden • Rolf K Nilsson – Journalist och konservativ samhällsdebattör, fd riksdagsledamot • Henrik Alexandersson – Journalist och liberal samhällsdebattör • Peter Stilbs – Professor emeritus i fysikalisk kemi vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan i Stockholm • Stig-Björn Ljunggren – Statsvetare och krönikör • Jan-Erik Gustafsson – Docent i vattenhushållning vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan • Anders Edwardsson – Statsvetare och historiker, bosatt i USA • Karl Gustel Wärnberg – Bachelor i idéhistoria, Queen Mary University of London • Jan Tullberg – Docent i företagsekonomi, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm • Henrik L Barvå – Politisk redaktör på konservativa Nya Wermlands-Tidningen • Gunnar Sandelin – Socionom, journalist och författare

America and the Asian Revolutions

AvClaes G. Ryn

Inbunden, Engelska, 1970

1 148 kr

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America and the Asian Revolutions

AvClaes G. Ryn

Häftad, Engelska, 1970

523 kr

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America the Virtuous

Democracy and the Ethical Life

Common Human Ground

Philosophy of Paul Elmer More

A Desperate Man

A Desperate Man

Will, Imagination, and Reason

Will, Imagination, and Reason

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America the Virtuous

America the Virtuous

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Will, Imagination, and Reason

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