Peter Viereck: Reconciliation and Beyond
In 1997, at eighty years old, Peter Viereck wrote the last of his dialogical long poems, which are his major…
Dignity in Old Age: The Poetical Meditations of Peter Viereck
Viereck, ever audacious, gives us an account of the poet’s dying and, in consequence, of what our own might be if we could pull it off.
Irving Babbitt and Postmodernity: Amplitude and Intensity
There are many ways to re-read a classic. One can go to it to participate again in something permanent. One…
A Dialogue on Reason and Imagination
Philosophical Reason: Historical, Systematic, and Humble Claes G. Ryn [From HUMANITAS, Volume VI, No. 2, 1993 © National Humanities Institute] The intellectual…
Concentric Imagination: An Alternative to Philosophical Reason
Does humanist individualism need supplementation by a form of reason that is not simply practical-analytical?