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"Peter Viereck, in a work on the intersection of history and literature, offers a critique of the American desire for normalcy that leads to a culture of the surrender of personality. In contrast to this voluntary thought control process is the unadjusted person. Cast in the mold of great individualists from Thomas More to Friedrich Nietzsche, such a person responds to fun
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Paperback, Revised Edition, 400 pages
Published
October 31st 2003
by Routledge
(first published 1956)
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A conservative road not taken in mid-20th-century America. Viereck was one of the earliest postwar "new conservative" intellectuals; by the middle of the 1950s, however, he had been officially drummed out of the conservative movement by the National Review. In this eclectic book, Viereck rails against the xenophobic populism of the McCarthyite Right, the dreariness of American mass-consumption culture, and the boundless optimism of liberals alike.
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Still deserve to be read ! Viereck expresses the core elements of conservative thinking in especially lucid prose, making a clear distinction between philosophy and mere party politics.
The defense of private property, for example, looms large in the conservative platform not out of some plutocratic materialist need to accumulate profits, but rather for the moral sentiments it engenders. "It educates its possessor in the moral qualities of sturdy independence, sense of responsibility, and the tra ...more
The defense of private property, for example, looms large in the conservative platform not out of some plutocratic materialist need to accumulate profits, but rather for the moral sentiments it engenders. "It educates its possessor in the moral qualities of sturdy independence, sense of responsibility, and the tra ...more
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Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (August 5, 1916 – May 13, 2006), was an American poet and political thinker, as well as a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College for five decades.
Viereck was born in New York, the son of George Sylvester Viereck. He received his B.A. summa cum laude in history in 1937 from Harvard University. He then specialized in European history, receiving his M.A. in 1939 and ...more
Viereck was born in New York, the son of George Sylvester Viereck. He received his B.A. summa cum laude in history in 1937 from Harvard University. He then specialized in European history, receiving his M.A. in 1939 and ...more
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