Oakeshott on Rome and America
I have reached an agreement with Imprint Academic to publish my new book, which currently has the title above, in the first half of 2012.
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Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Congrats. Do you get to pick the title?
ReplyDeleteI certainly will have input into the title.
ReplyDeleteYou might want to make "Oakeshott on Rome and America" the subtitle, and use something flashier—perhaps a pithy line from Oakeshott himself (cf. this)?—for the title itself.
ReplyDeleteI certainly DO want a flashier title -- I just don't have one yet! Suggestions are welcomed.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations. I'm greatly looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to judge a work by its table of contents, so these titles might be hilariously inapposite. Even so, they are the best I could come up with:
ReplyDelete1. Constitutionalism's Empty Promise: Oakeshott on Rome and America
2. Rome, America, and the Failure of Rationalism: Oakeshott on the Fate of Two Civilizations
3. The Imaginary Chains of a Constitution: Oakeshott on the Roman and American Experiments
That last one is of course an allusion to the famous Jefferson quotation.
Good work, PSH.
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