Homeless and at home in America / Peter Augustine Lawler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawler, Peter Augustine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social values--United States.

Social values.

United States.

National characteristics, American.

Place (Philosophy).

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

United States--Civilization.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

vi, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

South Bend, Ind. : St. Augustine's Press, 2007.

Contents:

Two views of Americanization

A friendly critique of pure crunchiness

Against the lobotomites : thoughts on the Bible, philosophy, and politics inspired by Thomas L. Pangle

The Socratic philosopher and the American individual

Stuck-with-virtue conservatism

McWilliams and the problem of American political education

Real men prove Darwin wrong again

Murray and Brownson

Toward a consistent ethic of judicial restraint

Is the body property?

Modernity and postmodernity

Tocqueville at 200

Where's the love?

Tocqueville on the doctrine of interest

Disco and democracy : thoughts on Stillman's film and book

An American fantasy? love, nobility, and friendship in Casablanca

A story about nothing : the two kinds of nihilists and one kind of Christian in Flannery O'Connor's Good country people.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781587313608

158731360X

OCLC:

86172830