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The fourteen essays in this book develop a conception of human culture, which is humane and traditionalist. Focusing particularly on notions of beauty and the aesthetic, it sees within our culture intimations of the transcendent, and in two essays the nature of religion is directly addressed. A number of essays also explore the relation between politics and tradition.

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The essays are informed with a wide erudition, marking the author out as a significant contemporary link in a long chain of Western thought . The Science and Network Review (Winter, 2008) The Landscape deserves to be read, both by specialists and nonspecialists, for the richness of its content, its even tone, and its mode of presentation. It admirably lives up to the famous ideal, made popular in eighteenth- century Britain, of taking philosophy out of its confined closet into the wide space of the public domain. Tej N. Dhar University of Kashmir, India The European Legacy

The essays are informed with a wide erudition, marking the author out as a significant contemporary link in a long chain of Western thought . The Science and Network Review (Winter, 2008)

The essays are informed with a wide erudition, marking the author out as a significant contemporary link in a long chain of Western thought. The Landscape deserves to be read, both by specialists and nonspecialists, for the richness of its content, its even tone, and its mode of presentation. It admirably lives up to the famous ideal, made popular in eighteenth-century Britain, of taking philosophy out of its confined closet into the wide space of the public domain. -- Tej N. Dhar University of Kashmir, India The European Legacy

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