1st Edition
Aesthetic Origins Peter Viereck and the Imaginative Sources of Politics
Edited By Jay Patrick Starliper
Copyright 2014
246 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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While it is gaining in academic prominence, discussion of the imagination is too often neglected. Society is dangerously unaware of the intimate relationship between culture and politics, ethics and aesthetics. Challenging this, Jay Patrick Starliper examines the imagination through the lens of the work of Peter Viereck and other likeminded thinkers. The result is a philosophical deconstruction... Read more
Foreword by Claes G. Ryn
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1 Peter Viereck and the Imaginative Conservation of Order
2 The Nazi Revolt against Decency
3 Arbitrary Caprice
4 The Crux of Civilization
5 Ahistorical Rationality and Human Nature
6 Will and the Ethical Imperative of Inner Action
7 The Moral Imagination
8 The Dream-Nexus
9 An Imaginative Conservatism
10 The Standardless Threat to Liberty
11 The Unadjusted Incarnation of Order
Epilogue: Strict Wildness, a Love That Transfigures
Index
Biography
Jay Patrick Starliper
