Reclaiming a Classic: Beethoven, the Conservative
Few composers command an image as striking as Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) does in the contemporary imagination. Generations of lovers of classical music grew up thinking of…
Few composers command an image as striking as Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) does in the contemporary imagination. Generations of lovers of classical music grew up thinking of…
There is a fairly common attitude among Eurocrats that a good crisis should not go to waste. And the ideal solution to a crisis is to move…
At the age of nine, Frank Furedi experienced a historical event that he would never forget. The Soviet Army crushed the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, forcing Furedi…
In May 2017, a group of European conservative scholars and intellectuals met in Paris. They were brought together by their common concern about the state of European…
Europe, la voie romaine. Rémi Brague. Folio Essais. Paris: Gallimard, 1992. Reason defines men, not the other way around. Had such an Aristotelian-like proposal constituted the…
Please see Tilo Schabert's Lecture, "The Biggest Challenge of Our Time?"at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest on the problem of "migration." The YouTube link is available…
Voegelin’s essay, “Democracy in the New Europe” (1959), was written in a period of transition in Eric Voegelin’s career, having left Louisiana State University in the United…
The significance of this document is emphasized by a recent controversy: in October of 2015, Chinese authorities blocked an exhibition of a rare parchment copy of the…
Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. Eric Kurlander. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Reading Eric Kurlander’s Hitler’s Monsters awoke my memory…
I will be focusing on the following questions: What is the place of these texts in the corpus of Patocka’s works? How do they fit into the…
The study is concerned with the specific nature of two velvet revolutions in Czech history – in 1918 and 1989 – and with the philosophy of the…
An elementary fact in the history of thought is the emergence of philosophical schools around prominent thinkers. The disciples of a Master strived to preserve his work…
Please see Tilo Schabert's two lectures, available on YouTube. His lecture on "The German Revolution 1989." It is available here. His lecture about the 2017 French Presidential…
All forms of political order are phenomena of movements. The classic typology of political constitutions that Plato elaborated and Aristotle modified to an extent therefore represents both:…
The Venice Roundtable François Mitterrand related the following episode several times afterward – to SPD [The German Social Democratic Party] president Hans-Jochen Vogel, Spanish prime minister Felipe…