General cultural values
Philosophy of culture in the present age
Does postmodernism have a substance?
Leibniz, Vico, and alternative modernities
Conservatism as a branch of liberalism
Christian democracy and subsidiarity in the world
Christian martyrdom and Christian humanism
The insertion of religion : the model of Benedict and Habermas
Pieper, hope, imperfection, and literature
General literary values
Globalism, multiculturalism, and comparative literature
Teaching literature from a Catholic angle
Literary canons and social value options
The argument from variety
The argument from persecution
The argument from practicality
The argument from opposition
The argument from defeat
Specific applicative examples
Following the classics : layers of stylistic mimesis
Reinventing Romanticism or nineteenth-century Kitsch?
Ernst Jünger, distance, proximity, and transfer of cultural values
Epilogue
A philosophical garden.