"Privilege and Liberty" and Other Essays in Political Philosophy
Applications in Political Theory

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'Conservative and Revolutionary Ethos,' Kolnai's remarkable 1972 essay comparing conservative and revolutionary approaches to political life, appears for the first time in English translation. The volume also includes a critically sympathetic evaluation of Michael Oakeshott's Rationalism in Politics and an incisive criticism of Jacques Maritain's efforts to synthesize Christian orthodoxy and progressive politics. Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy is a searching critique of political utopianism, as well as a pathbreaking articulation of conservative constitutionalism as the true support for human liberty properly understood. It is a major contribution to Christian and conservative political reflection in our time.

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Editor's Note Chapter 3 The Recovery of the Common World: An Introduction to the Moral and Political Reflection of Aurel Kolnai Part 4 "Liberty Under God" vs. the "Self-Sovereignty" of Democratic Man Chapter 5 Privilege and Liberty (1949) Chapter 6 The Meaning of the "Common Man" (1949) Chapter 7 Three Riders of the Apocalypse (1950) Part 8 The Critique of Utopianism Chapter 9 The Utopian Mind (1960) Part 10 The Meaning of Conservatism Chapter 11 Conservative and Revolutionary Ethos (1972) Chapter 12 Conservatism and the Natural Order of Things: A Review of Michael Oakeshott's Rationalism in PoliticsI (1965) Part 13 Christianity and Democracy Chapter 14 Between Christ and the Idols of Modernity: A Review of Jacques Maritain's Man and the StateI (1951) Chapter 15 Index