Resisting Politics for the Sake of Humanity
November 19, 2004
Now in its 40th year, the Fall/Winter 2004 issue of The Intercollegiate Review is out (free for students and faculty) with notable articles on marriage, Eric Voegelin, and conservatism. Allan Carlson discusses “Marriage as a Sexual and Economic Union” while tracing 19th-20th-century sociology and feminist critique of the modern family. Glenn Hughes presents what may serve as an introduction to Voegelin’s thought while answering the question of how he understood Christianity and if Christianity has any ongoing importance to politics and conservatives in particular. Claire Valente analyzes Peter Jackson’s translation of Tolkien’s epic and considers its meaning. And Ted V. McAllister reviews “conservative history,” particularly the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s part in that history as portrayed in Lee Edwards’ Educating for Liberty: The First Half-Century of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (Regnery, 2004). McAllister reasonably argues “that ISI is, and has been for fifty years, the most important conservative institution to have resisted the overt politicization of American conservatism.” Hence the title of this short note, which comes from political philosophers Larry Chappell and Bernard Bray who rail, with C. S. Lewis, “against intellectual and political trends that … signal ‘the abolition of man.’ In this view, humanity (more readily associated with Augustine than Aquinas) is not a standard for political action, but rather a standard for resisting politics.”This is Resisting Politics for the Sake of Humanity in The Japery, a part of The New Pantagruel. Previously: Epidemic Continues; Limbaugh Offers Free Therapy | Next: Fighting the CoD | TrackBack (0) | Comments (0)
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