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Burnham, James was born on November 22, 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Claude George and Mary May (Gillis) Burnham.
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Burnham published The Web of Subversion, in which he maintained that communist infiltration of the American government, particularly the State Department, since the 1930s accounted for events such as the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and the fall of mainland China to the Communists.
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This classic work of political theory and practice offers an account of the modern Machiavellians, a remarkable group who have been influential in Europe and practically unknown in the United States. The book devotes a long section to Machiavelli himself as well as to such modern Machiavellians as Gaetano Mosca, Georges Sorel, Robert Michels and Vilfredo Pareto. Burnham contends that the writings of these men hold the key both to the truth about politics and to the preservation of political liberty.
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James Burnham’s 1964 classic, Suicide of the West, remains a startling account on the nature of the modern era. It offers a profound, in depth analysis of what is happening in the world today by putting into focus the intangible, often vague doctrine of American liberalism. It parallels the loosely defined liberal ideology rampant in American government and institutions, with the flow, ebb, growth, climax and the eventual decline and death of both ancient and modern civilizations. Its author maintains that western suicidal tendencies lie not so much in the lack of resources or military power, but through an erosion of intellectual, moral, and spiritual factors abundant in modern western society and the mainstay of liberal psychology. Devastating in its relentless dissection of the liberal syndrome, this book will lead many liberals to painful self-examination, buttress the thinking conservative’s viewpoint, and incite others, no doubt, to infuriation. None can ignore it.
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INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS by JAMES BUNHAM AND PHILIP WHEELWRIGHT. Originally published in 1932. Contents include: PART ONE METHOD CHAPTER I THE TASK OF PHILOSOPHY 3 1. Is Philosophy Possible 2. The Philosophic Attitude. 3. Philosophic Technique. 4. Philosophical Criticism. y CHAPTER II MEANING 26 1. The Meaning Situation. 2. The Thinking Process. 3. Further Remarks about Meaning. 4. The Mental Aspect of Meaning What is an Idea 5. The Objectification of Meaning. CHAPTER III LOGICAL MEANING 68 1 . The Two Uses of Language. 2. Terms. 3. Definition. 4. Ambiguity. 5. Propositions. CHAPTER IV LOGICAL STRUCTURE 102 1. Relations. 2. Relations between Propositions. 3. A Few Devices. 4. Toward Complications. iv CONTENTS 5. The Dilemma. 6. The Counter-dilemma. 7. Rebuttal and Reductio ad Absurdum. CHAPTER V FACTUAL REASONING . 129 2. Generalization. 3. Causal Analysis. 4. Physical Determinism. 5. Functional Correlation. 6. Statistical Generalization. 7. The Later Stages of Scientific Reasoning. CHAPTER VI DIALECTICAL METHOD 168 1. Realms of Discourse. 2. Dialectical Method. 3. Metaphysics.. xX 4. Fallacies of Metaphysical Reasoning. PART TWO PROBLEMS CHAPTER VII THE WORLD OF PHYSICS 201 1. The Common-Sense World. 2. Classical Physics. 3. Contemporary Physics. 4. The Problem of Reality. CHAPTER VIII THE WORLD OF LIVING THINGS 254 1. Biology and the Physical Sciences. 2. Is Biology a Science 3. Evolution, CHAPTER IX THE SELF 300 1. Historical Preliminary. 2. The Cartesian Dualism. 3. Man a Machine. 4. Subjectivism. 5. Toward Sanity, CHAPTER X MORAL VALUES 348 1 . The Moral Realm of Discourse. 2. Moral Values and Cognate Realms of Fact. 3. Postulates of the Moral Realm. 4. Problems of the Moral Realm. CHAPTER XI RELIGION 385 1. What a Philosophy of Religion Can Do. 2. Religious and Scientific World-Views. 3. Current Attempts at Compromise. 4. The Nature of Beliefw-5. The Attributes of Divinity. CHAPTER XII THE ESTHETIC EXPERIENCE 417 1 . Reductions of the Esthetic Experience. 2. The Autonomy of the Esthetic Experience. 3. The Importance of the Esthetic Experience. CHAPTER XIII THE PHILOSOPHIC ATTITUDE 446 INDEX 459. PART ONE: METHOD. CHAPTER I: THE TASK OF PHILOSOPHY. I throw my dog a piece of meat he tenses certain muscles, relaxes others, flexes his hind legs, throws his head back, suddenly opens and shuts his jaws just in time to catch the meat cleanly, takes a quick bite or two, swallows, and looks very much satisfied. I sit in an Italian church, and watch a young girl praying before the high altar, her head bowed, her hands clasped. I listen to a friend of mine telling with regret how his young son, in spite of punishments, every day leaves school at recess to take a walk in the neighboring country. I stand in an Athens twilight beside a peasant from a mountain district who has for the past half hour silently been watching the Parthenon blacken in the sunset. My eyes follow casually drops of water melting from an icicle attached to the eaves of a high roof. The icicle breaks off, and with it smaller pieces of ice and snow. They fall with increasing speed, at first together then the heavier pieces of ice outdistance the rest, and are shattered against the ground some moments before the smaller particles of snow finish their drop. In a half directed chain of reflections I begin to consider this lag in the time at which the snow reached the ground. The ice is heavier, but I know that this is no part of the explanation and I remember my surprise when I first learned that there was nothing in the nature of heavy bodies that made them drop faster than light bodies...
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Suicide is probably more frequent than murder as the end phase of a civilization. -James Burnham, Suicide of the West
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William F. Buckley, Jr., perhaps best described the importance of this seminal work when he said, "James Burnham has written a book about Liberalism for which the world has been aching. It is worth more to the West than the year's gross national product, more than all the planes and bombs...." Through studious research into past civilizations, Burnham diagnoses the 20th century and finds it afflicted with destructive, even "suicidal" tendencies - all of which arise from the "Liberal syndrome" and its inherent applications. The book explores several important questions, including why Liberalism clashes with Christianity and how Liberalism is a root cause of race riots and the rapid growth in crime. For James Burnham, who died in 1986, this book is certainly one of his greatest legacies.
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Burnham, James was born on November 22, 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Claude George and Mary May (Gillis) Burnham.
Bachelor, Princeton University, 1927; Bachelor, University of Oxford, England, 1929; Master of Arts, University of Oxford, England, 1932.
Professor philosophy, Washington Square College, New York University, New York City, 1929-1953.
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Married Marcia Lightner, March 31, 1934. Children: Marcia, James Bernard, John Lightner.