From a publishing house dedicated to promoting conservative libertarianism, comes a reprint of a collection of correspondence by Swiss art historian Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), a man "viscerally opp
This volume collects the letters written between 1838 and 1897 by Jacob Burckhardt, one of the greatest historians of art and culture of his time. The correspondence provides additional and personal o
"CHARLES PEGUY is the only poet of consequence during the last fifty years in France whose work has failed to arouse the smallest critical interest in this country. Compared with Claudel or Valery, to
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first app
In his seminal 1846 tract The Present Age, SOren Kierkegaard ("the father of existentialism"?New York Times) analyzes the philosophical implications of a society dominated by mass media?a society eeri
