Bøker av Thomas R. Nevin

Simone Weil: Portrait of a Self-exiled Jew

Few men in America's intellectual history have sought as much as Irving Babbitt to be a crucible for the cultural values that America had no inclination to receive. Even now, Babbitt remains a figure of controversy. He retains his reputation as a reactionary defender of genteel morality, yet, as Thomas Nevin reminds us, he continues to be a scholar of importance and an erudite, forceful teacher.