Paul Gottfried
 Paul E. Gottfried | |
| Full name | Paul Edward Gottfried |
|---|---|
| Born | 21 November 1941 Brooklyn, New York City |
| Era | Political philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophers |
| School | Paleoconservatism |
| Main interests | Welfare state, democratic pluralism, Romanticism |
Paul Edward Gottfried (born 21 November 1941) is a Jewish-American historian, philosopher, and writer of German Austrian descent. He "has been one of America’s leading intellectual historians and paleoconservative thinkers for over 40 years, and is the author of many books, including the landmark Conservatism in America (2007).
A critic of the neoconservative movement, the former scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and H. L. Mencken Club President has warned against the growing lack of distinctions between the Democratic and Republican parties and the rise of the managerial state. He has been acquainted with many of the leading American political figures of recent decades, including Richard Nixon and Patrick Buchanan. He is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and a Guggenheim recipient.[1]
Contents
Selected publications
Books
- Conservative Millenarians: The Romantic Experience in Bavaria, Fordham University Press, 1979
- 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, autobiography, ISI Books, 2009 ISBN 1-933859-99-7
- Leo Strauss and the American Conservative Movement, Cambridge University Press, 2012
- War and Democracy, Arktos, 2012, ISB 978-1-907166-80-8
Edited Books
- (with Gabriel B. Ricci) Culture & Consumption, Transaction Publishers, 2000.
- Democracy in Theory and Practice, Transaction Publishers, 1992.
- (with Gabriel B. Ricci) Humanities & Civic Life, Transaction Publishers, 2002.
- Making Sense of Modernity, Volume 28, Transaction Publishers, 1994.
- Politics and Regimes, Transaction Publishers, 1997.
- Theologies and Moral Concern, Transaction Publishers, 1995.
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)
External links
Arktos
Videos
Column archives
Further reading
- Dominique Venner: The Shock of History: Religion, Memory, Identity, Arktos, 2015 (foreword by Gottfried)
