Humanitas articles from March 2002

Humanitas archives from March 2002

Regaining the balance: an Augustinian response to Eric Voegelin.
March 22, 2002... Introduction Eric Voegelin's treatment of Christianity is notoriously problematic. David Walsh writes that "a problem within Voegelin's... work... is the problem of Voegelin's understanding of Christianity, and more broadly, of...

The end of art theory.
March 22, 2002... "In aesthetics... one can argue more and better than in any other subject." Anatole France (1) A Mildly Polemical Preface It needs finally to be said, in paraphrase and in extension of Hegel, that art theory on the side of its...

Irving Babbitt on Lincoln and unionism.
March 22, 2002... Surveying American politics, culture and society in Democracy and Leadership, Irving Babbitt found little to admire and much to criticize. (1) Against the notion that "the people" could be trusted to choose worthy leaders, he reminded his...

The problem of Lincoln in Babbitt's thought.
March 22, 2002... Half a century ago, Lincoln biographer David Herbert Donald surveyed the pious pleadings of an unlikely assortment of politicians who testified to Abraham Lincoln's certain endorsement for their policies. Agreeing on little else, they were all...

The heritage of Lincoln.(response to article by Richard M. Gamble in this issue, p. 69)
March 22, 2002... In "The Problem of Lincoln in Babbitt's Thought," (1) his scholarly rejoinder to my "Irving Babbitt on Lincoln and Unionism," (2) Richard Gamble argues that Babbitt was wrong to uphold Lincoln "as an exemplary figure in the best American...

Debate on power should continue. (Further Thoughts on Power).(response to Claes G. Ryn, Humanitas, vol. 14, p. 100, 2001, and Paul Gottfried, Humanitas, vol. 14, p. 96, 2001)
March 22, 2002... Professors Gottfried's and Ryn's dialogue on power(1) is significant for a variety of reasons. When two intellectual titans engage in debate over the essence of political legitimacy, the contest in and of itself is intriguing. But more...

Gottfried-Ryn dialogue deficient.(Paul Gottfried, Humanitas, vol. 14, p. 96, 2001; Claes G. Ryn, Humanitas, vol. 14, p. 100, 2001 on power)
March 22, 2002... The tone of scholarly discourse affects its quality. Although this observation may not prove invariably true, its general validity gives me confidence to cite it in order to introduce my disappointment with the recent dialogue on power,...

Power is manipulating the masses.(response to articles in this issue by Marshall DeRosa, p. 86, and Chris Woltermann, p. 90)
March 22, 2002... Allow me to note what I did not say in After Liberalism (1) or in my rejoinder to Professor Ryn (2) but which some of my critics persist in giving as my view. Never, to my knowledge, have I stated that the managerial regime is the sole or only...

Power, again.(response to articles in this issue by Marshall DeRosa, p. 86, and Chris Woltermann, p. 90)
March 22, 2002... Each of the participants in this exchange are willing, more or less, to give a hearing to my argument about power. That the argument is also eliciting some puzzlement and misunderstanding is not surprising; it runs counter to some deeply...

The authoritarian secularism of John Stuart Mill. .(John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity)(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity, by Linda C. Raeder. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. 402 pp. $49.95. I first encountered John Stuart Mill in an undergraduate political theory survey course. As I recall, the class...