Intercollegiate Studies Institute Ord: 88 books
The Cost of Liberty
The Life of John Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
**“Makes a powerful and convincing case for restoring John Dickinson to his rightful place in the first rank of the Founders.” —*The Washington Times ***
The Cost of Liberty offers a sorely needed reassessment of a great patriot and misunderstood Founder.
It has been more than...
by Henry Edmondson III
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The influence of John Dewey’s undeniably pervasive ideas on the course of American education during the last half-century has been celebrated in some quarters and decried in others. But Dewey’s writings themselves have not often been analyzed in a sustained way. In John Dewey and the Decline...
Blue Collar Intellectuals
When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Stupid is the new smart—but it wasn’t always so
Popular culture has divorced itself from the life of the mind. Who has time for great books or deep thought when there is Jersey Shore to watch, a txt 2 respond 2, and World of Warcraft to play?
At the same time, those who pursue...
The Nature of Nature
Examining the Role of Naturalism in Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The intellectual and cultural battles now raging over theism and atheism, conservatism and secular progressivism, dualism and monism, realism and antirealism, and transcendent reality versus material reality extend even into the scientific disciplines. This stunning new volume captures this titanic...
Dupes
How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
“Nothing short of horrifying . . . In terms of putting the last 100 years in perspective, Dupes may be one of the most significant literary offerings of our time.” —Washington Times
In this startling, intensively researched book, bestselling historian Paul Kengor shines light on a deeply...
Eliot and His Age
T. S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Eliot and His Age remains the best introduction to T. S. Eliot’s life, ideas, and literary works. It is the essential starting place for anyone who would understand what Eliot was about. Russell Kirk’s view of his older friend is sympathetic but not adulatory. His insights into Eliot’s writings...
by Christopher Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In scope and in vision Christopher Dawson’s historiography ranks with the work of men like Spengler, Northrop, and Toynbee. Several major themes run through Dawson’s work, but perhaps his most unique contribution was his insistence on the importance of religion in shaping and sustaining civilizations.
Religion,...
The Life of the Mind
On the Joys and Travails of Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
In The Life of the Mind, Georgetown University’s James V. Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take a special delight and pleasure in simply knowing. Because we have not only bodies but also minds, we are built to know what is. In this volume, Schall, author...
On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs
Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing
Echoing philosophers such as Josef Pieper, Schall explains how the modern world has inverted the rational order of human affairs, devaluing the activities of leisure and placing an exaggerated emphasis on utilitarian...
Beauty Will Save the World
Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Culture, Not Politics
We live in a politicized time. Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than merely bemoaning the vulgarity and sloganeering of this era, says acclaimed author and editor Gregory Wolfe,...
American Conservatism
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
**“A must-own title.” —National Review Online
American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference volume to cover what is surely the most influential political and intellectual movement of the past half century. More than fifteen years in the making—and more...
by Robert Nisbet
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
One of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society.
Nearly a half century before...
History and the Human Condition
A Historian's Pursuit of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In a career spanning more than sixty-five years, John Lukacs has established himself as one of our most accomplished historians. Now, in the stimulating book History and the Human Condition, Lukacs offers his profound reflections on the very nature of history, the role of the historian, the limits...
Life Under Compulsion
Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
How do you raise a child who can sit with a good book and read? Who is moved by beauty? Who doesn’t have to buy the latest this or that vanity? Who is not bound to the instant urge, wherever it may be found?
As a parent, you’ve probably asked these questions. And now Anthony Esolen provides...