Book: Nobilitas: A Study of European Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century
I just chanced upon this book by Alexander Jacob, apparently an Indian-born independent right-wing(?) scholar with a PhD from Pennsylvania State University: "Nobilitas: A Study of European Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century" (University Press of America, 2000).
Quote: "Nobilitas ... aims at providing an alternative to the liberal democratic norms, which are propagated today as the only viable socio-political system for the world community. Jacob reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the social and cultural development of European civilization has, for twenty-five centuries, been based not on democratic or communist notions but, rather on aristocratic and nationalist notions. ... As such, the study includes a survey of the philosophical bases of racism and anti-Semitism."
With an appendix titled "The Spiritual Defects of Democracy".
(Update 31 August 2011: While transferring my Google+ posts for archiving purposes to my earlier blog, I noticed that the link I provided was for some reason cut short in Google+. Here's the full link: http://www.univpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0761818871)
I just chanced upon this book by Alexander Jacob, apparently an Indian-born independent right-wing(?) scholar with a PhD from Pennsylvania State University: "Nobilitas: A Study of European Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century" (University Press of America, 2000).
Quote: "Nobilitas ... aims at providing an alternative to the liberal democratic norms, which are propagated today as the only viable socio-political system for the world community. Jacob reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the social and cultural development of European civilization has, for twenty-five centuries, been based not on democratic or communist notions but, rather on aristocratic and nationalist notions. ... As such, the study includes a survey of the philosophical bases of racism and anti-Semitism."
With an appendix titled "The Spiritual Defects of Democracy".
(Update 31 August 2011: While transferring my Google+ posts for archiving purposes to my earlier blog, I noticed that the link I provided was for some reason cut short in Google+. Here's the full link: http://www.univpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0761818871)
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