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Panichas, George Andrew was born on May 21, 1930 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Andrew and Fotini (Dracouli) Panichas.
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The author 'employs criticism to illuminate a wide range of pressing cultural problems in their literary, social, and religious contexts .' In three parts: Culture and Society, Art and Morality, and Ancients and Moderns. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 462 pages including Index.
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This volume brings to completion the trilogy George A. Panichas began to write more than 30 years ago. "The Reverent Discipline", "The Courage of Judgment" and this new collection are all critiques not only of literature and criticism but also of society and culture. Writing from the tradition of what Edmund Burke calls "the dissidence of dissent", Panichas combines moral commitment and polemical fervour to diagnose the crisis of modernity. The overall tone of these essays is urgent, censorious and combative, as the author assiduously interconnects the needs of religion, the quality of leadership, the thought of great writers, the current plight of the humanities and the structure of politics. He does not fear controversy when he assigns blame or when he cites lapses that separate society from its metaphysical moorings and religious tradition. Throughout, the critic views contemporary life as being in a state of emergency; the reader in turn views the critic as being under arms and under fire. Essays like "The Christ of Simone Weil", "'The New York Times' and Eric Voegelin", "Henry James and Paradigms of Character", "The Incubus of Deconstruction", "Metaphors of Virtue", and "Conservatism, Change and the Life of the Spirit", indicate the range of a generalist who speaks out on issues of acute significance. The unifying principle informing these essays is the insistence that the critic's mission is to conserve universal values and truths in a world of flux and confusion. Panichas' conservatism is one of conservation, anchored firmly in the belief that there are enduring things to defend and save. This collection of writings should challenge all readers concerned with moral disarray and spiritual barrenness in modern times.
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The Critical Legacy of Irving Babbitt is an unsurpassed appreciation of a major American critic and diagnostician of the modern social order. This work is also a useful introduction to the writings of Babbitt, the New Humanist scholar and teacher of T. S. Eliot.
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This book seeks to renew interest in Joseph Conrad's moral imagination. Not literary theory but the dignity of creative literature impels the author's reflections on Conrad's novels in their ?varied shades of moral significance.? In illuminating interpretations the author focuses on the consequences of moral darkness and moral warfare as he proceeds to uncover Conrad's basic ideas and meaning. The book shows that morality in Conrad's work is not reducible to an absolute category but must be apprehended in the forms of both moral crises and the possibility of moral recovery enacted in their complexity and tensions. Guiding a reader's travels to the furthest realms of Conrad's imagination so as to penetrate to the heart of the novelist's moral vision is one of the author's dominant aims. These travels take the reader to The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Victory, Under Western Eyes, Chance, and The Rover. It also contains a new chapter on the Heart of Darkness.
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Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism collects those writings of eminent literary scholar and critic George A. Panichas which appeared in the quarterly Modern Age between 1965 and 2005. Panichas became the editor of Modern Age, founded by Russell Kirk in 1957, in 1982. Both before and after that date, he has labored in his writing to act as a “conservator” of traditionalist intellectual, religious, literary, educational, and philosophical values. This collection provides a bulwark for standards of discrimination anchored in the virtues of sincerity and dignity, amply conveying the compelling character of Panichas’s moralist criticism and its relevance to the ongoing crisis of the West.
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Hawthorn Press, 1971 first edition HARDCOVER with DJ VG with foxing at edges but NOT price clipped. Owner name front free end paper. Private Library Politics of Twentieth-Century Novelists literature criticism
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A collection of twenty years of distinguished essays by Austin Warren, which also completes his trilogy that began with Rage for Order (1948) and Connections (1970). These last essays of Warren include discussions of the writings and philosophies of Allen Tate, Lewis Carroll, William Law, T.S. Eliot
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Dante and Epicurus seem poles apart. Dante, a committed Christian, depicted in the Commedia a vision of the afterlife and God's divine justice. Epicurus, a pagan philosopher, taught that the soul is mortal and that all religion is vain superstition. And yet Epicurus is, for Dante, not only the quintessential heretic but an ethical ally. The key to this apparent paradox lies in the heterodox dualism - between man's two goals of secular felicity and spiritual beatitude - at the heart of Dante's ethical, political and theological thought. Corbett's full-length treatment of Dante's reception and polemical representation of Epicurus addresses a major gap in the scholarship. Furthermore the study's focus on fault lines in Dante's vision of the afterlife - where the theological tensions implicit in his dualism surface - opens a new way to read the Commedia as a whole in dualistic terms.
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In 306 BC, Epicurus established his school at Athens in his garden, from which it came to be known as The Garden. In popular parlance, Epicureanism means devotion to pleasure, comfort, and high living, with a certain nicety of style. The basic concepts are the identification of good with pleasure and of the supreme good and ultimate end with the absence of pain from the body and the soul, a limit beyond which pleasure does not grow but changes; the reduction of every human relation to the principle of utility, which finds its highest expression in friendship, in which it is at the same time surmounted; and, in accordance with this end, the limitation of all desire and the practice of the virtues, from which pleasure is inseparable, and a withdrawn and quiet life. In principle, Epicurus' ethic of pleasure is the exact opposite of the Stoic's ethic of duty. The consequences, however, are the same: in the end, the Epicurean is forced to live with the same temperance and justice as the Stoic.
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Panichas, George Andrew was born on May 21, 1930 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Andrew and Fotini (Dracouli) Panichas.
Bachelor, American International College, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1951. Doctor of Letters (honorary), American International College, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1984. AM, Trinity College, Connecticut, 1952.
Doctor of Philosophy, Nottingham University, England, 1962.
Instructor, English and comparative literature University Maryland, College Park, 1962-1963, assistant professor, 1963-1966, associate professor, 1966-1968, professor, 1968-1992. Co-chairman Conference Irving Babbitt: Fifty Years Later, 1983. Member Richard M. Weaver fellowship awards committee, 1984—1988, Ingersoll Prizes Jury Panel, 1986.
(A collection of twenty years of distinguished essays by A...)
(The Critical Legacy of Irving Babbitt is an unsurpassed a...)
(The author 'employs criticism to illuminate a wide range ...)
(In 306 BC, Epicurus established his school at Athens in h...)
( Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism collects those wr...)
(Hawthorn Press, 1971 first edition HARDCOVER with DJ VG w...)
(This book seeks to renew interest in Joseph Conrad's mora...)
(This volume brings to completion the trilogy George A. Pa...)
(Dante and Epicurus seem poles apart. Dante, a committed C...)
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Author: Adventure in Consciousness: The Meaning of D. H. Lawrence's Religious Quest, 1964, Epicurus, 1967, The Reverent Discipline: Essays in Literary Criticism and Culture, 1974, The Burden of Vision: Dostoevsky's Spiritual Art, 1977, The Courage of Judgment: Essays in Criticism, Culture and Society, 1982, The Critic as Conservator: Essays in Literature, Society, and Culture, 1992, The Critical Legacy of Irving Babbitt: An Appreciation, 1999, Growing Wings to Overcome Gravity: Criticism as the Pursuit of Virtue, 1999, Joseph Conrad: His Moral Vision, 2005, Restoring the Meaning of Conservatism, 2008. Editor (with G. R. Hibbard and A. Rodway): Renaissance and Modern Essays: Presented to Vivian de Sola Pinto in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday, 1966. Editor: Mansions of the Spirit: Essays in Literature and Religion, 1967, Promise of Greatness: The War of 1914-1918, 1968, The Politics of Twentieth-Century Novelists, 1971, The Simone Weil Reader, 1977, Irving Babbitt: Representative Writings, 1981, Modern Age: The First Twenty-Five Years.
A Selection, 1988, In Continuity: The Last Essays of Austin Warren, 1996, The Essential Russell Kirk. Selected Essays, 2007. Editor: (with C. G. Ryn) Irving Babbitt in Our Time, 1986.
Editorial advisor Modern Age: A Quarterly Review, 1971-1977. Associate editor: Modern Age: A Quarterly Review, 1978-1983. Editor, 1984—2007.
Advisory board Continuity: A Journal of History, 1984-1988, Humanitas, 1993—2010, Culture and Civilization, 2009-2010. Contributor articles and reviews to professional journals.
Member Academy Board National Humanities Institute, from 1985. Trustee Foundation Faith in Search of Understanding, 1987. Fellow: Royal Society Arts (England).