Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America
By: Paul Edward Gottfried
4.14
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
This book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his id…
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1. Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
By: Carl Schmitt , Thomas A. McCarthy , None
3.86
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy offers a powerful criticism of the inconsistencies of represe… read more
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"Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally. Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity and second—if the need arises e…"-Carl Schmitt, Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
2. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
By: John J. Mearsheimer , Stephen M. Walt
4.07
Format: 484 pages, Hardcover
The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harva… read more
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3. The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization
By: Patrick J. Buchanan
4.28
Format: 208 pages,
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4. The Prince
By: Niccolò Machiavelli , Adolph Caso , Rufus Goodwin , Benjamin Martinez
3.84
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following… read more
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"Is it better to be loved or feared?"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
"It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather."-Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
5. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
6. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
By: James Burnham
4.31
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, … read more
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"There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
"Independence, the first condition of liberty, can be secured in the last analysis only by the armed strength of the citizenry itself, never by mercenaries or allies or money; consequently arms are th…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
"Formally, a new election for an office many be held every year or two. But, in practice, the moere fact that an invidual has held the office in the past is thought by him and by the members to give h…"-James Burnham, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
7. The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation
By: None
4.30
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
While historians of Christianity have generally acknowledged some degree of Germanic influence in t… read more
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8. Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide
By: Edward Feser
3.71
Format: 435 pages, Paperback
One of the most influential philosophers and theologians in history, St. Thomas Aquinas was the fat… read more
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9. Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
By: Patrick J. Buchanan
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Were World Wars I and II--which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruct… read more
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10. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
11. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
By: Christopher Lasch
3.95
Format: 473 pages, Paperback
Can we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, C… read more
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12. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
By: Reza Aslan
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but Godcomes a fascinating, provocative, and … read more
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13. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
14. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
15. The Problem of Pain
By: C.S. Lewis
4.13
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful… read more
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"Man is to be understood only in his relation to God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
16. The Populist Delusion
By: Neema Parvini
4.37
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump unleashed a wave of populism not seen in America sin… read more
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"Left-wing progressivism"-Neema Parvini, The Populist Delusion
17. Why Liberalism Failed
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.86
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth c… read more
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"Individualism and statism advance together, always mutually supportive, and always at the expense of lived and vital relations that stand in contrast to both the starkness of the autonomous individua…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"Rather than promoting unrealistic standards for behavior - especially self-limitation - that could at best be unreliably achieved, Machiavelli propsed grounding a political philosophy upon readily ob…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"One of the main goals of the expansion of commerce is the liberation of embedded individuals from their traditional ties and relationships. The liberal state serves not only the reactive function of …"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
"A main agent of that liberation becomes commerce, the expansion of opportunities and materials by which not only to realize existing desires but even to create new ones we did not know we had. The st…"-Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed
18. Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
By: Samuel Moyn
3.87
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washin… read more
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19. Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
By: Patrick J. Deneen
3.68
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacin… read more
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20. The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies
By: Auron MacIntyre
4.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
How did the land of the free become a surveillance state terrified of COVID and ruled by unaccounta… read more
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21. Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America
By: Paul Edward Gottfried
4.14
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
This book offers an original interpretation of the achievement of Leo Strauss, stressing how his id… read more
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