Paul Gottfried
| Paul Edward Gottfried | |
|---|---|
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Paul E. Gottfried | |
| Born | 1941 |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Paleoconservatism |
Main interests | Welfare state, democratic pluralism, Romanticism |
Paul Edward Gottfried (born 1941) is an American paleoconservative political philosopher, intellectual historian, columnist and former Horace Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, as well as a Guggenheim recipient. He is currently H. L. Mencken Club President.[1]
Career
He is the author of numerous books and articles detailing the influences which various German thinkers (such as Hegel and Schelling) have exerted on American conservative political theory, and was a friend of many political and intellectual figures: such as Richard Nixon, Pat Buchanan, John Lukacs, Thomas Molnar, Will Herberg, Samuel T. Francis, Paul Piccone, Murray Rothbard, Eugene Genovese, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Nisbet. Gottfried is a paleo-conservative critic of neoconservativism within the Republican Party.
Selected publications
Books
- Conservative Millenarians: The Romantic Experience in Bavaria, Fordham University Press, 1979 ISBN 978-0-8232-0982-8
- The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right, Northern Illinois Univ Press, 1986 ISBN 0-87580-114-5
- The Conservative Movement, Twayne Pub 1988, with Thomas Fleming (second edition 1992) ISBN 0-8057-9724-6
- Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory, Greenwood Press 1990, ISBN 0-313-27209-3
- After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State, Princeton University Press, 2001 ISBN 0-691-08982-5
- Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Towards a Secular Theocracy, University of Missouri Press, 2002 ISBN 0-8262-1417-7
- The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium, University of Missouri Press, 2005 ISBN 0-8262-1597-1
- Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007 ISBN 0-230-61479-5
- Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers, ISI Books, 2009 ISBN 1-933859-99-7
- Leo Strauss and the American Conservative Movement, Cambridge University Press, 2012
Articles
- “Anti-War Anti-Americanism?”. Telos 114 (Winter 1999). New York: Telos Press.
- “The Multicultural International”. Orbis (Winter 2002)
- “The Invincible Wilsonian Matrix”. Orbis (Spring 2007)
- “The WASP Roots of Liberal Internationalism”. Historically Speaking (Fall 2010)
References
- ↑ "The HL Mencken Club". H. L. Mencken. Retrieved 2012-02-26.
External links
Column archives
Interviews
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- 2007 Interview with Sean Gabb at the Property and Freedom Society on YouTube
- 2011 Interview with What Would the Founders Think?