Peter Viereck's career has been an ongoing experiment in the symbiosis of poetry and history. Tide and Continuities is the embodiment and culmination of that career. It includes many poems never before published, and work--some with stunning revisions--from books as recent as his 1987 epic, Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles, and as early ...
Peter Viereck, poet and historian, is one of the principle theoreticians of conservatism in modern American political thought. In this classic work, Viereck undertakes a penetrating and unorthodox analysis of that quintessential conservative, Prince Metternich, and offers evidence that cultural and political conservatism may perhaps be best ...
This work, first published in 1941, indicts Hitler in terms of the Judaic-Christian ethical tradition and locating certain elements of the Nazi worldview in German romantic poetry, music, and social thought. This work remains a cultural interpretation of Nazism and totalitarianism and in the psychological interpretation of Hitler as a Wagnerite ...
Such profound thinkers as Coleridge, Cardinal Newman, Disraeli, Ortegay Gasset, Irving Babbitt, and some of America's founding fathers are represented in this book.
A biting critique of the American desire for normalcy that leads to a culture of the surrender of the personality. In contrast to this voluntary thought control process is the unadjusted person. Cast in the mould of great individualists from Thomas More to Friedrich Nietzsche, such a person responds to fundamental values of conscience rather than ...
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