Contents
Preface
Introduction. The Drama of Cultural Conservatism
Part I. The Real, the West, and the Good
One. The Hunger for Reality
Two. What Is the Western Tradition?
Part II. Art, Being, and Beauty
Three. We Must Retranslate Kalon
Four. Style and Truth: Conservatism as Literary Movement
Five. What Dante Means to Us
Six. “Only What Does Not Fit into This World Is True”
Seven. Re-Reading the Book of Nature
Eight. Art as Intellectual Virtue
Nine. Beauty as a Transcendental
Ten. The Need for Proportion
Part III. Reason, Narrative, and Truth
Eleven. Reasoning about Stories
Twelve. Mnemosyne: Mother of the Arts
Thirteen. Novel, Myth, Reality: An Anatomy of Make-Believe
Fourteen. Retelling the Story of Reason
Fifteen. The Consequences of Our Forgetting
Sixteen. Still Interested in the Truth
Bibliography
Index