The historical mind : humanistic renewal in a post-constitutional age / Edited by Justin D. Garrison and Ryan R. Holston.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What I believe : Rousseau and religion / Irving Babbitt -- Power without limits : the allure of political idealism and the crumbling of American constitutionalism / Claes G. Ryn -- Russell Kirk and the romance of Babbittianism / Bradley J. Birzer -- The pillars of Hercules : Babbitt, Warren, and the dangers of scientific naturalism / Justin D. Garrison -- Luminosity, imagination, truth : on Voegelin and Ryn / S.F. McGuire -- Politics, moral judgment, and the enlightenment project / William F. Byrne -- Natural law, the moral imagination, and prudent exceptions / Robert C. Koons -- Irving Babbitt and Christianity : a response to T.S. Eliot / Ryan R. Holston -- Can constitutions preserve engendering experience? / Michael P. Federici -- On the moral necessity of constitutionalism : Claes Ryn and ethical democracy / Bruce P. Frohnen -- "Let things be called by their right names" : difference as constraint in American exceptionalism / Richard M. Gamble -- A little place and a big idea : the temptation to imperialism and the loss of republicanism / Justin B. Litke -- Resistance and renewal : Irving Babbitt and China / Zhang Yuan and Justin D. Garrison.

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