Equality Decadence and Modernity - Softcover

Schneider, Gregory L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932236635 ISBN 13: 9781932236637

Verlag: ISI Books, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Over the course of the past four decades Stephen J. Tonsor, professor emeritus of European intellectual history at the University of Michigan, has made a reputation within the conservative intellectual movement as a trenchant thinker, forceful writer, and witty, sometimes caustic, lecturer. But without a book to introduce his thought to the wider public, Tonsor has remained largely unknown outside conservative circles. For many readers, then, this generous collection, edited by historian Gregory Schneider, will serve as an enlightening introduction to the work of a man who is among the most penetrating of conservative thinkers. Equality, Decadence, and Modernity features substantial excerpts from Tonsor?s two book-length unpublished manuscripts, "Decadence" and "Equality," as well as insightful essays on conservative thought and politics. Among other pieces, this volume includes Tonsor?s controversial polemic, "Why I Too Am Not a Neoconservative." "Halfway from modernity is not far enough" , asserted Tonsor in this essay. Yet Tonsor?s critique of modernity, and much else, is complex and always intelligent. With the publication of Equality, Decadence, and Modernity, readers may now share in, and profit from, that intelligence.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Gregory L. Schneider is Associate Professor of History at Emporia State University. He is the author of Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right (New York University Press, 1999) and the editor of Conservatism in America since 1930: A Reader (New York University Press, 2003). Stephen J. Tonsor taught history at the University of Michigan from 1955 to 1991. Born on a farm outside Jerseyville, Illinois, in 1923, Tonsor attended Blackburn College before matriculating at the University of Illinois. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, seeing combat in the Pacific theater. He received his Ph.D. in European intellectual history from the University of Illinois in 1952. Tonsor lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ISI Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1932236635
• ISBN 13: 9781932236637
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 357
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar