Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals T&Fbestsellers20240320 EAN: 9781285419855

EAN: 9781285419855

School Management in Transition examines the impact of the neo-conservative political agendas which still hold sway in education

Through its readings of Charles Baudelaire's collection Le Spleen de Paris and other prose poems from the nineteenth century

the Olympic Games produce a kaleidoscopic range of intangible and quasi-religious engagements with place and spectacle

Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals T&Fbestsellers20240320 EAN: 9781285419855In this classic volume, written at the height of the Cold War, with a new preface of 2006, Peter Viereck, one of the foremost intellectual spokesmen of modern conservatism, examines the differing responses of American and European intellectuals to the twin threats of Nazism and Soviet communism. In so doing, he seeks to formulate a humanistic conservatism with which to counter the danger of totalitarian thought in the areas of politics, ethics, and