Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
History of the Chapters
Part 1. General Cultural Values
I. Philosophy of Culture in the Present Age
II. Does Postmodernism Have a Substance?
III. Leibniz, Vico, and Alternative Modernities
IV. Conservatism as a Branch of Liberalism
V. Christian Democracy and Subsidiarity in the World
VI. Christian Martyrdom and Christian Humanism
VII. The Insertion of Religion: The Model of Benedict and Habermas
VIII. Pieper, Hope, Imperfection, and Literature
Part 2. General Literary Values
IX. Globalism, Multiculturalism, and Comparative Literature
X. Teaching Literature from a Catholic Angle
XI. Literary Canons and Social Value Options
XII. The Argument from Variety
XIII. The Argument from Persecution
XIV. The Argument from Practicality
XV. The Argument from Opposition
XVI. The Argument from Defeat
Part 3. Specific Applicative Examples
XVII. Following the Classics: Layers of Stylistic Mimesis
XVIII. Reinventing Romanticism or Nineteeth-Century Kitsch?
XIX. Ernst Jünger, Distance, Proximity, and Transfer of Cultural Values
Part 4. Epilogue
A Philosophical Garden (with Brief References to Sundry Published Material)
Notes
Index of Names