Revisions and Dissents : : Essays / / Paul Gottfried.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (174 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • 1. Reminiscences
  • 2. Robert Nisbet: Conservative Sociologist
  • 3. Defining Right and Left
  • 4. The Problem of Historical Connections
  • 5. Liberal Democracy as a God Term
  • 6. Origins of the State
  • 7. Reexamining the Conservative Legacy
  • 8. Whig History Revisited
  • 9. The European Union Elections, 2014
  • 10. The English Constitution Reconsidered
  • 11. Redefining Classes
  • 12. Did Mussolini Have a Pope?
  • 13. Heidegger and Strauss: A Comparative Study
  • 14. Explaining Trump
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Index