HUMANITASVolume XIX, Nos. 1&2, 2006 

Contents

American Culture: A Story,  5
Bruce P. Frohnen

Burke's Higher Romanticism:
Politics and the Sublime,  14
William F. Byrne

Peter Viereck (1916-2006),  35

My Ninetieth Year and Gate,  36
Poems by Peter Viereck

The Legacy of Peter Viereck:
His Prose Writings,  38
Claes G. Ryn

Irving Babbitt, the Moral Imagination,
and Progressive Education,  50
Glenn A. Davis

Joseph Conrad's Moral Imagination,  65
James Seaton

Mysticism in Contemporary Islamic
Political Thought: Orhan Pamuk
and Abdolkarim Soroush,  71
John von Heyking

Michael Polanyi, Alasdair MacIntyre,
and the Role of Tradition,  97
Mark T. Mitchell

The Tears of Priam: Reflections on
Troy and Teaching Ancient Texts,  126
James J. Dillon

John of Salisbury, the Policraticus,
and Political Thought,  133
Quentin Taylor

Richard Rorty's Postmodern Case for
Liberal Democracy: A Critique,  158
George Bragues

Locke the Hermenaut and the
Mechanics of Understanding,  182
Michael P. Berman



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