Claes G. Ryn, Publications:

Books:

A DESPERATE MAN. Washington, D.C.: Athena Books, 2014.

THE NEW JACOBINISM: AMERICA AS REVOLUTIONARY STATE. Second edition of 1991 original, With a Major New Afterword (52 pages) by the Author. Bowie, MD: National Humanities Institute, 2011. Sole author.

PETER VIERECK AND CONSERVATISM. Sole author. In Peter Viereck and Claes G. Ryn, CONSERVATISM REVISITED: THE REVOLT AGAINST IDEOLOGY, two monographs in the same volume. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2005.

AMERICA THE VIRTUOUS: THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY AND THE QUEST FOR EMPIRE. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2003. Author.

A COMMON HUMAN GROUND: UNIVERSALITY AND PARTICULARITY IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2003. Author.

HUMANITAS: RETHINKING IT ALL. Beijing: San Lian, 2003. Consulting editor, joint author.

UNITY THROUGH DIVERSITY: ON CULTIVATING HUMANITY’S HIGHEST GROUND (in Chinese translation). Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2001. Author.

Benedetto Croce, HISTORY AS THE STORY OF LIBERTY. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Press, 2000. Editor, and author of Foreword.

WILL, IMAGINATION AND REASON: BABBITT, CROCE AND THE PROBLEM OF REALITY. Second Edition, with a Major New Introduction by the Author. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1997.

Irving Babbitt, CHARACTER AND CULTURE: ESSAYS ON EAST AND WEST. With a Bibliography of Babbitt's Writings and an Index to his Collected Works. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1995. Editor, and author of critical introduction (42 p.). 

THE NEW JACOBINISM: CAN DEMOCRACY SURVIVE? Washington, D.C.: National Humanities Institute, 1991.

Irving Babbitt, ROUSSEAU AND ROMANTICISM. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 1991. Editor, and author of critical introduction (59 p.).

DEMOCRACY AND THE ETHICAL LIFE: A PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICS AND COMMUNITY. Second expanded edition (paperback). Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1990. 

WILL, IMAGINATION AND REASON: IRVING BABBITT AND THE PROBLEM OF REALITY. Chicago and Washington, D.C: Regnery Books, 1986.

INDIVIDUALISM OCH GEMENSKAP (Individualism and Community). Stockholm: Samhällsgemenskaps Förlag, 1986. 

IRVING BABBITT IN OUR TIME. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1986. Co-editor, with George Panichas, and joint author. 

Folke Leander, ROMANTIK OCH MORAL (Romanticism and Morality), Festschrift edition. Borås, Sweden: CETE Förlag, 1980. Co-editor, with Emil Uddhammar and Bo Dahlman, and author of Introduction. 

DEMOCRACY AND THE ETHICAL LIFE: A PHILOSOPHY OF POLITICS AND COMMUNITY. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. 

NYKONSERVATISMEN I USA (The New Conservatism in the United States). Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1971. Co-author with Bertil Häggman; author of six of the nine chapters. 

Articles, book chapters:

“Contrasting Notions of Moral Virtue: Their Implications for Society and Government” and three other chapters In Zhang Yuan, ed., AMERICAN HUMANISM (Beijing:  Beijing Normal University, forthcoming).
 
“Dreaming the Impossible Dream: Society and the Power of Self-Deception.” Cross-Cultural Dialogues, Beijing University, China, in press.
 
“The Moral Path to Peace.” The American Conservative, Nov./Dec. 2014.
 
“Eric Voegelin and Irving Babbitt.” Voegelin View, Nov. 7, 2014.
 
Foreword (article length) to Jay Starliper, AESTHETIC ORIGINS (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2014).
 
“Power Without Limits: The Allure of Political Idealism and the Crumbling of American Constitutionalism.” Humanitas, Vol. XXVI, Nos.1 & 2, 2013.
 
“Allan Bloom and Straussian Alienation.” Humanitas, Vol. XXV, Nos. 1 & 2, 2012 [published in 2013] Sole author
 
“Peter Viereck: Traditionalist Libertarian?” Library of Law and Liberty, July 23, 2012.
 
“Where in the World Are We Going?” Epistulae, No. 16., March 19, 2012.
 
“The Immodesty of American Empire: A Constitutionalist Perspective on Neo-Jacobin Universalism,” in Michael Federici, Richard M. Gamble, and Mark T. Mitchell, eds., THE CULTURE OF IMMODESTY IN AMERICAN LIFE AND POLITICS (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
 
“Konservatismen ser djupare än liberalismen.” Newsmill (Internet magazine, Stockholm), symposium on conservatism, March 21, 2011.
 
“A Challenge to Hollywood: Back to the Real World.” Epistulae, No. 9, June 29, 2010.
 
“From Civilization to Manipulation: The Decline and Replacement of the Western Elite.” Humanitas. Vol. XXII, Nos. 1 & 2, 2009.
 
“To Dreamworld and Back: A Movie Out of the Ordinary.” Humanitas, Vol. XXII, Nos. 1 & 2, 2009.
 
“Neokonservatismen är någonting annat.” Tradition & Fason. October 5, 2009,    http://traditionochfason.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/gastkronika-claes-g-ryn/
 
“Debacle: The Conservative Movement in Chapter Eleven.” Epistulae, No. 7, August 25, 2009.
 
“Debacle: The Conservative Movement in Chapter Eleven.” Humanitas, Vol. XXI, Nos. 1 & 2, 2008.
 
“Neo-Jacobin Nationalism or Responsible Nationhood?” in Bruce Frohnen and Kenneth Grasso, eds., DEFENDING THE REPUBLIC: CONSTITUTIONAL MORALITY IN A TIME OF CRISIS. ESSAYS IN HONOR OF GEORGE W. CAREY (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2008).
 
“Personalism and Value-Centered Historicism.” The Pluralist (University of Illinois), Vol. 3, No 2.
 
“America’s Coup D’ État In the Making. Deception and Self-Deception.” Epistulae, No. 4, 2008
 
“Power Play.” The American Conservative, October 6, 2008.
 
“The Decline of American Intellectual Conservatism.” Modern Age, Vol. 49, No. 4 (2007); article presented as the “Conclusion” to the 50th anniversary volume of Modern Age.

“Neo-Jacobin Nationalism or Responsible Nationhood?” In Bruce Frohnen, ed. DEFENDING THE REPUBLIC. ESSAYS IN HONOR OF GEORGE W. CAREY Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2008.

“Neo-Jacobin Exceptionalism as a Justification for American Global Supremacy.” University of St. Thomas Law Journal, 3, Fall 2005.

“Leo Strauss and History: The Philosopher as Conspirator.” Humanitas, Vol. XVIII, Nos. 1 & 2, 2005.

“The Politics of Transcendence: The Pretentious Passivity of Platonic Idealism” (in Chinese translation) in Yang Nai-qiao and Wu Xiao-ming, eds. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND WORLD LITERATURE. SPECIAL VOLUME IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR YUE DAIYUN ON THE OCCASION OF HER 75TH BIRTHDAY. Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2005.

“Jacobin in Chief,” The American Conservative, April 11, 2005.

“Humanism: A Basis for Unifying Diversity” (in Chinese translation). Cross-Cultural Dialogues (Beijing University), Vol. 15, August 2004.

 “Appetite for Destruction,” The American Conservative, January 19, 2004.

"The Ideology of American Empire." Orbis, Summer, 2003.

" The Power of Imagination, For Good or Ill: Irving Babbitt and Benedetto Croce and Art as a Unifying or Disruptive Force" (in Chinese translation). Cross-Cultural Dialogues (Beijing University), No. 12, 2003.

"Power, Again." Humanitas, Vol. XIV, No. 1, 2002.

"Kulturell ytlighet kan hota samlevnaden." Svenska Dagbladet, editorial page, July 8, 2002

"President Bush’s svåra vägval." Svenska Dagbladet, editorial page,
March 28, 2002

"George W. Bush ber om tålamod." Svenska Dagbladet, editoral page, November 8, 2001.

"Varning för hämdbegäret." Svenska Dagbladet, editorial page, September 14, 2001.

"Demokrati också mellan valen." Svenska Dagbladet, editorial page, August 17, 2001.

"Konservativa löften." Svenska Dagbladet, editorial page, May 6, 2001.

"A Broader, Subtler View of Power." Humanitas, Vol. XIV, No. 1 (2001). 

"No More Nonsense About Elites." Chronicles, October, 2001 

"Dimensions of Power: The Transformation of Liberalism and the Limits of ‘Politics.’" Humanitas, Vol. XIII, No. 2, (2000). 

"The New Jacobinism and Postmodernism" (in Chinese translation). Cross-Cultural Dialogues (Beijing University), No. 5, 2001. 

"Humanism: A Basis for Unifying Diversity" (in Chinese translation). Cross-Cultural Dialogues (Beijing University), No. 2, 2001. 

"History as Synthesis." Humanitas, Vol. XIII, No 1, 2000.

"Sverige har tillfogats omätlig skada." Svenska Dagbladet, editorial page, January 29, 2000. 

"Duglighet räcker inte." Svenska Dagbladet, editorial page, November 11, 2000. 

"De bästa eller de mediala." Svenska Dagbladet, editorial page, October 24, 2000.

"Kamp om federal maktapparat." Svenska Dagbladet, editorial page, September 28, 2000. 

"Paradoxernas Kina består." Svenska Dagbladet, August 22, 2000. 

"The Politics of Transcendence: The Pretentious Passivity of Platonic Idealism." Humanitas, Vol. XII, No. 2, 1999. 

"Tage Lindbom: Vännen--Tänkaren." In Jonas de Geer, ed., VÄNBOK TILL TAGE LINDBOM (Skellefteå: Norma, 1999). 

"Defining Historicism." Humanitas, Vol. XI, No. 2, 1998. 

"När tanke och fantasi tröt." Svensk Tidskrift, Vol. 86, No. 1, 1999. 

"Tankar om vår mänsklighet." Contextus, No. 3, 1998. 

"USA och Europa på kollisionskurs." Svenska Dagbladet, ledarsidan, July 9, 1998. 

"Cultural Origins of Politics: The Imagination of Modern Escape." In William Boxx and Gary Quinlivan, eds., TOWARD THE RENEWAL OF CIVILIZATION: POLITICAL ORDER AND CULTURE (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1998).

"Imaginative Origins of Modernity: Life as Daydream and Nightmare." Humanitas, Vol. X, No. 2, 1997. 

"Dags att åter älska staten." Svenska Dagbladet, Oct. 28, 1997. 

"Verklig politisk moral är praktisk handling." Svenska Dagbladet, ledarsidan, March 26, 1997. 

"Demokratisk självrannsakan." Svenska Dagbladet, ledarsidan, Jan. 23, 1997. 

"Politisk personlighetsklyvning." Svenska Dagbladet, ledarsidan, Nov. 20, 1996. 

"Another Conception of Knowing." Humanitas, Vol. IX, No. 1, 1996. 

"Den vanmäktiga politiken." Svenska Dagbladet, ledarsidan, Sept. 24, 1996. 

"Introduction "(critical introduction, 20 p.) for Tage Lindbom, THE MYTH OF DEMOCRACY. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996. 

"How Conservatives Failed 'The Culture.'" Modern Age, Vol. 38, No. 2 (1996). 

"How We Know What We Know: Babbitt, Positivism and Beyond." Humanitas, Vol. VIII, No.1, 1995. 

"Cultural Diversity and Unity." In IMMIGRATION AND THE AMERICAN IDENTITY. Rockford: Rockford Institute, 1995. (Reprint.) 

"Virtue: Real and Imagined." In THE UNBOUGHT GRACE OF LIFE: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF RUSSELL KIRK, ed. James E. Person. La Salle, Ill.: Sherwood Sugden, 1994. 

"Tingsten var medskyldig till vänstervågen." Svenska Dagbladet, March 22, 1994. 

 
"Saken gällde Tingstens snäva tänkande." Svenska Dagbladet, April 7, 1994. 

"Democracy and Nationhood." Ch. III in NATIONAL IDENTITY AS AN ISSUE OF KNOWLEDGE AND MORALITY, Georgian Philosophical Studies, I, eds. N.V. Chavchavadze, Ghia Nodia, and Paul Peachey. Bucharest: Paideia Publishers, 1994; and Washington, D.C.: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1994. 

"Democracy as an Ethical Problem." Ch. XII in NATIONAL IDENTITY AS AN ISSUE OF KNOWLEDGE AND MORALITY. (As above). 

"A Question of Class." National Review, February 7, 1994. 

"Philosophical Reason: Historical, Systematic, and Humble." Humanitas, Vol. VI, No. 2 (1993). 

"Universitetens skuld." Smedjan (Stockholm), Vol. 8, No. 3, (June, 1993).
 

"Tide of Lawlessness." Washington Times, April 13, 1993. 
 

"Cultural Diversity and Unity." Chronicles, Vol. 17, No. 6 (June, 1993). 

"Universality and History: The Concrete as Normative." Humanitas, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1992-93)."

"Humanitas: Rethinking It All." Unsigned editorial statement. Humanitas, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1992-93). 

"Political Philosophy and the Unwritten Constitution." Modern Age, Vol. 34, No. 4 (1992). 

"Natural Law and the Higher Will." Vera Lex, Vol. 11, No. 2 (1991). 

"'Saving the West': the New Jacobins." Humanitas, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1991). 

"Defining Democracy." The World and I, December 1987. 

"Irving Babbitt and the Christians." Humanitas, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1990). (Reprint). 

"The Democracy Boosters." National Review, March 24, 1989. 

"Irving Babbitt and the Christians." Modern Age, Vol. 32, No. 4 (1989). 

"Universality or Uniformity? "Modern Age, Vol. 32, No. 1 (1988). 

"The Humanities and Moral Reality." In EDUCATING FOR VIRTUE, ed. Joseph Baldacchino. Washington, D.C.: National Humanities Institute, 1988. 

"The Humanism of Irving Babbitt Revisited." In MODERN AGE: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. A SELECTION, ed. George Panichas. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1988. (Reprint.) 

"Rationalitetens etiska och estetiska förutsättningar "(The Ethical and Aesthetical Preconditions of Rationality). In FÖRNUFTETS GRÄNSER (The Limits of Rationality), ed. Torgny Segerstedt. Stockhom: Ratio, 1987. 

"Historicism and Its Critics." Modern Age, Vol. 31, No. 3-4 (1987). 

"Harvest Time for the Welfare State." University Bookman, Vol. 26, No 4 
(1986). 

"The Ethical Problem of Democratic Statecraft." In POWER, PRINCIPLES & INTERESTS, eds. Jeffrey Salmon, James O'Leary, and Richard Shultz. Lexington, Mass.: Ginn Press, 1985. 

"The Things of Caesar: Toward the Delimitation of Politics." In ESSAYS ON CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICS, eds. George Carey and James Schall. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America and The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1984. (Reprint.) 

"Babbitt and the Problem of Reality." Modern Age, Vol. 28, No. 2-3 (1984). 

"History and the Moral Order." In THE ETHICAL DIMENSION OF POLITICAL LIFE, ed. Francis J. Canavan. Durham: Duke University Press, 1983. 

"Non Videri Sed Esse: Folke Leander 1910-1981." Modern Age, Vol. 27, No. 1 (1983). 

"Knowledge and History." Journal of Politics, Vol. 44, No. 2 (1982). 

"Strauss and Knowledge: A Rejoinder." Journal of Politics, Vol. 44, No. 2 (1982). 

"American Intellectual Conservatism: Needs, Opportunities, Prospects." Modern Age, Vol. 26, No. 3-4 (1982). 

"The Work of Community." In PAPAL ECONOMICS, ed. Philip Lawler. Washington, D.C.: Heritage Foundation, 1981. 

"När vinden vände i USA." Svenska Dagbladet, January 20, 1981.

"The Things of Caesar: Notes Toward the Delimitation of Politics." Thought, Vol. 55, No. 219 (1980). 

"Nyskapande traditionalism eller motkultur? "In TANKAR OM DET GODA SAMHÄLLET, eds. Tyrgils Saxlund and Carl Johan Ljungberg. Edsbruk: Holms gåg;rds tryckeri, 1979. 

"Peter Viereck: Undajusted Man of Ideas." Political Science Reviewer, Vol. 7 (1977). 

"The Humanism of Irving Babbitt Revisited." Modern Age, Vol. 21, No. 3 (1977). 

"Youthful Dissent: Community and Counter-Culture." Intercollegiate Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (1974). 

"Konservatism och marxistisk analys." Tiden, Vol. 64, No. 4 (1972). 

"Nykonservatismen i Förenta Staterna." Svensk Tidskrift, Vol. 59, No. 5-6 (1972). 

"Malört i glädjebägaren." Svensk Linje, Vol. 31, No. 2 (1972). 

"Nykonservatismen i USA." Dagens Nyheter, July 28, 1971.

"Notes on the Cultural Revolution." University Bookman, Vol. 11, No. 1 (1971)."

"Har våg;r kultur en framtid?" In KÄMPANDE KONSERVATISM, ed. Gunnar Unger. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 1971. 

"En möjlig konservatism." Svenska Dagbladet, March 1, 1971. 

"Den disharmoniska välfärdsstaten." Tidskriften Heimdal, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1970). 

"Konservatism eller opportunism." Svensk Linje, Vol. 29, No. 6 (1970). 

"Politisk vindkantring i USA." Norrköpings Tidningar, November 5, 1968.

"Den ungkonservativa våg;gen i USA." Norrköpings Tidningar, September 30, 1968. 

"Mot en aktiv kulturkonservatism." Tidskriften Heimdal, Vol. 7, No. 3-4 (1968).

"USA." Svensk Linje, Vol. 28, No. 3-4 (1968). 

"En politisk-filosofisk renässans? "Pro & Contra, Vol. 1, No. 3-4 (1968). 

"Vår splittrade kultur." Origo, No. 3, 1968. 

"Jag--en konservativ." Svensk Linje, Vol. 26, No. 2 (1967). 

"En distinktionsmedveten konservatism." Svensk Tidskrift, Vol. 54, No. 3 (1967). 

"Den konservativa ståg;ndpunkten." Svensk Tidskrift, Vol. 53, No. 8 (1966)

Reviews:

"The Return of the Sage." Review of IRVING BABBITT: REPRESENTATIVE WRITINGS, ed. George Panichas. University Bookman, Vol. 24, No. 2 (1984). 

"An American Classic." Review of DEMOCRACY AND LEADERSHIP, by Irving Babbitt. University Bookman, Vol. 22, No. 1 (1982). 

"Interpreting the Sage." Review of THE INNER CHECK, by Folke Leander. Modern Age, Vol. 19, No. 3 (1975). 

Review of THE LIBERTARIAN ALTERNATIVE, ed. by Tibor Machan. Journal of Politics, Vol. 37, November 1975. 

"The Swedish Experiment." Review of THE NEW TOTALITARIANS, by Roland Huntford. Intercollegiate Review, Vol. 8, No. 4 (1973). 

"Kirk om Burke!" Review of Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered, by Russell Kirk. Svensk Linje, Vol. 26, No. 7-8 (1967). 



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