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Revolt Against Modernity
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Revolt Against Modernity Hardback - 1996

by Ted V. McAllister

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This study provides a comparison of the political philosophy of Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss, and its influence on contemporary American conservatism.

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'McAllister traces an American counter-tradition in the work of thinkers for whom modernity was as much tragedy as triumph. An important contribution to our self-understanding as well as to the history of ideas.' - Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Democracy on Trial.

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  • Title Revolt Against Modernity
  • Author Ted V. McAllister
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 323
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  • Publication date 1996
  • ISBN 9780700607402 / 0700607404
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.26 x 1.25 in (23.70 x 15.90 x 3.18 cm)
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95035016
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.520

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Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order

Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order

by McAllister, Ted V.

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Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". xv, 323pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Gentle shelfwear to dust jacket and binding. Bound in light gray cloth over boards, with spine lettered in red. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable first edition of this comprehensive comparitive study of Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss are two of the most provocative and durable political philosophers of this century. Ted McAllister's superbly written study provides the first comprehensive comparison of their thought and its profound influence on contemporary American conservatism. Since the appearance in the 1950s of Strauss's Natural Right and History and Voegelin's Order and History, conservatives like Russell Kirk, Irving Kristol, and Allan Bloom have increasingly turned to these thinkers to… Read more
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REVOLT AGAINST MODERNITY: LEO STRAUSS, ERIC VOEGELIN, AND THE SEARCH FOR A POSTLIBERAL ORDER
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REVOLT AGAINST MODERNITY: LEO STRAUSS, ERIC VOEGELIN, AND THE SEARCH FOR A POSTLIBERAL ORDER

by Ted V. McAllister

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US: University Press of Kansas, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Beige fabric boards with debossed red titling and publisher's mark to spine. Pages have small ink marks to fore edge of pp. 80, 81, 140-143, but are otherwise clean, no markings from previous owners. Boards are clean and bright with light bumping and rubbing to spine head cap and tail. Binding is tight and square. Text block is lightly soiled to top and fore edge. DJ is clean with light scuffing to front and rear covers, light creasing and rubbing to spine head cap and tail and corners, light wear to extremities. DJ is covered by a protective mylar jacket.
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