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Community and Tradition

by George W. Carey (Editor, Contributor), Bruce Frohnen historian and author of Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism (Editor), Norman Barry (Contributor),
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ISBN-13: 978-0847686612
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  • Paperback: 214 pages
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (August 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0847686612
  • ISBN-13: 978-0847686612
  • Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsWe're in big trouble
By Brett Williams on December 27, 2005
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Vast in scope, concepts and depth this book is revealing of what should be obvious, but habits long since axiomatic are invisible to those of us practicing them. Coordinated by a world sage on this matter, Georgetown University's, George W. Carey, the book is a series of essays by various authors. Occasionally an author sounds to be preaching the good old time religion, ignoring its contradictions, but overall this is a spectacular text - regularly breathless - about the demise of communities in America. Suggestions in restructuring are made to recover communities if we even desire deep human connectedness anymore, which is questionable. Missing are the effects of prosperity. Observation implies communities pull together in scarcity as long as it's not too severe. And though Leakey's central tenet for human survival is socialization, required by scarcity, it seems with prosperity we dissolve associations with equally natural tendencies - unless this is simply masked by hypotheses submitted in this book.

Historically beginning with the "New Republic's" founder, Herbert Croly and his "Promise Of American Life" in 1909 (a strong influence on FDR), the authors survey these past and present opponents to their traditional, conservative approach to communities vs. Robert Nisbet, Tocqueville, etc. Those opponents are progressive liberals with utopian notions of harmony and unity through force of central government intrusion to "make us better people" for the greater good, which is also a goal of these conservatives, sounding opposed to "too much" individualism. Clearly humans need regulating, but how and how much are points of central contention between both parties.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsSublime
By NOMOPHYLAX on May 27, 2014
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Any composition or literary offering involving Lord Frohnen, is a gem of dazzling beauty in an epoch of mass rubbish, and demotic offal... I myself took the liberty of "knighting a knight" above, true, but Frohnen is lordly because meritorious as the lonely American conservative WHO IS REALLY ACTUALLY CONSERVATIVE (!) - something practically undreamed, unthinkable today... In the context of facing and negotiating the structures of ideological dehumanization and Marxist cognitive influence even over the so-called most "conservative" exponents, these lovely days of Sodomite anomie...

Libertarians are metaphysical toddlers, and are in need of rustic domestication methods. Only herd-souls of low caliber could develop into libertarian self-identity; thus imperialist means are to be indulgently utilized in cutting down these posturing clowns, half-anarchist, quarter-liberal, quarter-communist, FULLY MATERIALIST.

Put collars of medieval peasantry upon these saboteurs of conservative cultural integrity. Confused twits, lasso the horde of usurpers to the title of "conservative" or even "individualist" - the most individualistic type today is the most ROOTED in the mass condition of ROOTLESSNESS, of disinherited bone-degeneracy! Any conservator of order is de facto, default, a "communitarian" definitionally... AND NOT IN YOUR SENSE, HEGELIANS. Hrmph! The atomized mechanistic materialistic nihilist filth of the libertarian sheepfold, is to be abominated, remorselessly...

Those who remain as "fossils" in the eyes of historical materialism, are fossils for triumphing the transcendentally TIMELESS: Frohnen is the rare American organic, balanced sane scholar and intellectual expositor of the presently-departed conservative Western tradition... The moral framework overarching all, is given justice, and this is scholarship...
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