HUMANITASVolume VI, No. 2, 1993 

    Contents

      Poetry Now and the Space We Live In, 3
      Samuel Hux

      Depoliticization from Within:
      Not Taking a Fall with Richard Brautigan, 15
      James Murray Miclot

      Tantalus and Leeks, 45
      Poems by Heidy Anne Steidlmayer

      Liberty's Aristocratic Roots
      And Modern Democracy, 46
      Chris Woltermann

      The Cynic, 65
      A poem by Paul Gottfried

      Plagiarism, Culture, and
      The Future of the Academy, 66
      Theodore Pappas

      Dialogue

      Philosophical Reason:
      Historical, Systematic, and Humble, 81
      Claes G. Ryn

      Concentric Imagination:
      An Alternative to Philosophical Reason, 91
      Michael A. Weinstein

      Reviews

      The Incredible Shrinking Historian, 100
      Jacob Neusner
      Reflections on History and Historians, by Theodore S. Hamerow.
      Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. 267 pp. $30 cloth. $14.95 paper.

      Conor Cruise O'Brien's Burke, 105
      Carl Johan Ljungberg
      The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke, by Conor Cruise O'Brien.
      London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992. £22.50. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
      692 pp. $34.95.

      Perspectives on Elitism, Populism, and Culture: Three Reviews

      Unorthodox Reflections of an Elder Statesman, 109
      Matthew Carr
      Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy, by George Kennan.
      New York: W. W. Norton, 1993. 272 pp. $22.95.

      Populism Against Progress, 114
      Mark Wegierski
      The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics, by Christopher Lasch.
      New York and London: W. W. Norton, 1991. 591 pp. $25.

      Populism: Unacceptable Danger
      Or Legitimate Weapon?, 117
      W. Wesley McDonald
      The Challenge of Populism: The Rise of Right-Wing Democratism in Postwar America, by Michael P. Federici. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1991. 157 pp. $42.95.

      Notes on Contributors, 121


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