Becoming What We Are: Classical and Christian Readings of Modernity
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. Becoming What We Are -- 2. Durkheim at the Founding of Social Science -- 3. Cicero -- 4. Larry Siedentop -- 5. Washington's Solemn Contemplation -- 6. Charles de Gaulle -- 7. The Good Pagan's Failure -- Part II -- 8. A New World Begins -- 9. Luther -- 10. Maimonides on Free Will -- 11. Thought -- 12. Lee Congdon on Russia -- 13. The Concept of Person -- 14. Purity in Aspiration -- Part III -- 15. Rémi Brague -- 16. Yemima Ben-Menahem -- 17. On Human Worth and Excellence -- 18. Reconstruction -- 19. The Great Delusion -- 20. Physics and Philosophy -- 21. C. S. Peirce, Jacques Maritain, and Other Scholastics on the Problem of Induction -- Part IV -- 22. Christopher Dawson and the Survival of Western Culture -- 23. George Santayana and Walter Lippmann -- 24. John T. Scott on Rousseau -- 25. Pierre Manent on Montaigne -- 26. Niki Kasumi Clements on John Cassian and Christian Ethical Formation -- 27. Alberto Boixados on Modern Art -- 28. Impossibility of a View from Nowhere -- Bibliography -- Index.