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Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: surveying the landscape and defining terms -- The seventeenth-century denigration of tradition and a nineteenth-century response -- Michael oakeshott and the epistemic role of tradition -- Alasdair macintyre's tradition-constituted inquiry -- Michael polanyi and role of tacit knowledge -- The incoherence of liberalism and the response of tradition -- Afterword: a conservatism worth conserving, or conservatism as stewardship -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Many Americans are longing for alternative politics rooted in strong communities, recognition of limits, and respect for the natural world. These issues are not the possession of one political party. Rather, they refer to ideas rooted deeply in the best aspects of our common tradition, and they represent yearnings that many, regardless of political affiliation, share. This book articulates a cultural and political vision that leads one off the couch and into the garden, out of the shopping mall and into the farmers' market, and away from Washington in the direction of home.

A characteristic of the modern mind is a disdain for tradition. Polanyi argues that neglecting the role of tradition leads to philosophical incoherence as well as moral and political chaos. Polanyi's postcritical philosophy represents an attempt to show how tradition plays a vital role in the process of discovery. Ultimately, a coherent account of the sciences, as well as the humanities, is only possible when tradition is acknowledged as indispensable.

This analysis of OConnor analyzes her writing through the frameworks of Platos discussion on democracy & tyranny, as well as Tocqueville description of the shift from aristocracy to democracy. The characters in OConnors story are summarized & particular events are highlighted to understand its similarities to the ideas of Plato & Tocqueville. The story comes to a pinnacle point of divinity that forces individual choice, which represents the attempts to change the world by force or by the mystery of existence. References. G. Chen

Intro -- Title Page -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Departure and Return -- Look Homeward, Angels (and Others) -- Birthright -- The Orphans of Success and the Longing for Home -- Part Two: Politics and Economics -- Federalism, Anti-Federalism, and the View from the Front Porch -- The Quest for the Common Good: Political Economy on the Front Porch -- Opposition to Crony Capitalism: A Truly Bipartisan Opportunity -- Agrarian Politics and the American Tradition -- American Foreign Policy and Modest Republicanism: The Great Rule Reconstituted -- The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America -- Part Three: The Home Economy -- Work, Death, and the Romantic Agrarian -- The Productive Home vs. The Consuming Home -- Killing the Animals We Eat -- Part Four: Art and Education -- "A New Magnetic North": 39 Theses on Education -- Reimagining the University with Wendell Berry -- Art, Beauty, and Communal Life -- Part Five: Civic Life -- A Land Like No Other: American Exceptionalism and the Problem of Scale -- Do-It-Ourselves Citizenship -- Luxury and Buying Local -- Part Six: The Urban Challenge -- Chicago 2109: The Metropolitan Region as Agrarian-Urban Unit -- Port City Confidential -- Part Seven: Philanthropy -- Satan Was the First Philanthropist -- Philanthropy's War on Community -- Part Eight: Technology and Popular Culture -- Technology, Mobility and Community -- Our Hookup Culture -- Part Nine: Beyond the Corruption of Moth and Rust -- Life Under Compulsion: Rejecting the Glorious Liberty of the Children of God -- Defining Conservatism Down -- Imagination and Memory Deformed: The Gnostic Resentment of Embodied Life and its Limits -- Afterword -- Contributors.

Corporations that are too big to fail, consumption inspired by excessive greed, government budgets that routinely exceed the limits of revenues, and foreign policy that meddles in the affairs of other nations insisting that the world imitate American ideals and ways of life are just a few of the examples of American immodesty discussed in the book. By identifying and illustrating aspects of American culture that are out of sync with the modest republicanism that gave rise to the United States in the late eighteenth century, the contributors to this volume expose the vulgarity and excess of Ame

This book compares and contrasts the ideas of some of the leading twentieth-century critics of rationalism: Gadamer, Hayek, Kolnai, MacIntyre, Oakeshott, Polanyi, Ryle, Voegelin, and Wittgenstein. This book provides important insights into this major intellectual trend of the past century.