Books by Peter Viereck

The great critic Peter Viereck, in a volume that both reproduces an earlier effort and presents an entirely new work on the intersection of history and literature, offers a biting critique of the American desire for normalcy that leads to a culture of the surrender of personality

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In 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

Across America today, conservatism is being hotly debated both across the political spectrum and within the conservative movement itself

More than half a century after the fall of the Third Reich, Nazism, its roots and its essential nature, remain a central and unresolved enigma of the twentieth century

Peter Viereck, poet and historian, is one of the principle theoreticians of conservatism in modern American political thought

Viereck examines the ethics and political philosophy of the New Conservatism and explains why this movement has, in part deservedly, failed.

?One can speak of this book only in superlatives. In more than twenty years of reviewing, the present writer can recall few books to match this one for its originality of ideas, its provocative challenge, its penetrating wit, and its sheer brilliancy of expression.?-Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Written at the height of the Cold War, this work examines the differing responses of American and European intellectuals to the twin threats of Nazism and Soviet communism. In so doing, it seeks to formulate a humanistic conservatism with which to counter the danger of totalitarian thought in the areas of politics, ethics, and art.

This history of conservatism by a renowned historian and social critic attempts to provide a concise, balanced picture of conservative thought in all its different shadings and cultural contexts. In this book, after each main conservative thesis, the anti-conservative rebuttal is summarized, and the reader is allowed to reach his own conclusions.

This is an analysis of that quintessential conservative, Prince Metternich, and offers evidence that cultural and political conservatism may perhaps be best adapted to sustain a free and reasonable society.

This work, first published in 1941, indicts Hitler in terms of the Judaic-Christian ethical tradition and locating certain elements of the Nazi worldview in German romantic poetry, music, and social thought. This work remains a cultural interpretation of Nazism and totalitarianism.

Explores questions of modernism and poetic craft with respect to American poetry. This book discusses the controversy over Ezra Pound's politics and its relation to his poetics, as well as the poet Vachel Lindsay. It offers views on poetics, including the tensions between form and content, and the impact of modern technology on poetic expression.

A biting critique of the American desire for normalcy that leads to a culture of the surrender of the personality. In contrast to this voluntary thought control process is the unadjusted person, cast in the mould of great individualists from Thomas More to Friedrich Nietzsche.