HUMANITASVolume XII, No. 1, 1999 

Contents

    Antigone's Flaw, 4
    Patricia M. Lines

    Realism, Romanticism, and Politics in Mark Twain, 16
    William F. Byrne

    On Wu Mi's Conservatism, 42
    Ong Chang Woei

    Russell Kirk and the Prospects for Conservatism, 56
    W. Wesley McDonald

    Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the
    Romantic Roots of Modern Democracy, 77
    William Gairdner

    Acedia, Tristitia, and Sloth: Early
    Christian Forerunners to Chronic Ennui, 89
    Ian Irvine

    Reviews
    The Metaphysics of Postmodernism, 104
    James Seaton on Carl Rapp's Fleeing the Universal: The Critique of Post-Rational Criticism

    Religion and the Constitution, 110
    Joseph Baldacchino on Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr.'s The American Myth of Religious Freedom

    The Humanities and Substance, 120
    Patricia Likos Ricci on Robert E. Proctor's Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve Our Schools

    Notes on Contributors, 128


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