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Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2010

1 online resource (xii, 392 p.)

ISBN 9780813217574 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780813216843 (cloth : alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references and index

General cultural values -- Philosophy of culture in the present age -- Does postmodernism have a substance? -- Leibniz, Vico, and alternative modernities -- Conservatism as a branch of liberalism -- Christian democracy and subsidiarity in the world -- Christian martyrdom and Christian humanism -- The insertion of religion : the model of Benedict and Habermas -- Pieper, hope, imperfection, and literature -- General literary values -- Globalism, multiculturalism, and comparative literature -- Teaching literature from a Catholic angle -- Literary canons and social value options -- The argument from variety -- The argument from persecution -- The argument from practicality -- The argument from opposition -- The argument from defeat -- Specific applicative examples -- Following the classics : layers of stylistic mimesis -- Reinventing Romanticism or nineteenth-century Kitsch? -- Ernst Junger, distance, proximity, and transfer of cultural values -- Epilogue -- A philosophical garden.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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