Aesthetic Origins Peter Viereck and the Imaginative Sources of Politics 1st Edition by Jay Patrick Starliper 1412853893 9781412853897

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ISBN 10: 1412853893 

ISBN 13: 9781412853897

Author: Jay Patrick Starliper

While it is gaining in academic prominence, discussion of the imagination is too often neglected. Society is dangerously unaware of the intimate relationship between culture and politics, ethics and aesthetics. Challenging this, Jay Patrick Starliper examines the imagination through the lens of the work of Peter Viereck and other likeminded thinkers. The result is a philosophical deconstruction that demonstrates why books are bullets.In 1941, before Nazi barbarism was public knowledge, a young Peter Viereck published Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler. In it, Viereck attacked the diabolical spiritual foundations of National Socialism. He made the ostensibly absurd claim that a certain shade of romanticism was the ethical foundation of a German revolt against decency. According to Viereck, Nazism was the culmination of over a century and a half of bad culture, the result of an idyllic imagination. Starliper warns that the same diseased imagination that culminated in gas chambers and guillotines is subtly affecting the way millions of people view the world today and that, without the inspiration of an elevated aesthetic, civilization will not survive.In the spirit of Edmund Burke and Irving Babbitt, Viereck’s insight into the ethical and political force of aesthetics provides a much needed critique of contemporary civilization.

Table of contents:

1 Peter Viereck and the Imaginative Conservation of Order

2 The Nazi Revolt against Decency

3 Arbitrary Caprice

4 The Crux of Civilization

5 Ahistorical Rationality and Human Nature

6 Will and the Ethical Imperative of Inner Action

7 The Moral Imagination

8 The Dream-Nexus

9 An Imaginative Conservatism

10 The Standardless Threat to Liberty

11 The Unadjusted Incarnation of Order

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