ABSTRACT

First published in 1997, this volume follows Catley and Cristaudo as they defend Western Civilization against all comers: against the rest of the world, especially the Third World, and against its own internal irritants: ‘the scribblings of the intelligentsia’ by idealist philosophers, feminists, greens, post-moderns, multiculturalists, Orientalists, anti-nationalists, socialists and Keynesians, most of them tenured academics in the arts and social sciences. As academic political scientists themselves they have done time in a number of the ideological prisons they attack, and they write about those states of mind with experienced cynicism ... As in Paradise Lost, the devil gets all the best tunes. The identification of civilization’s enemies is wildly, sometimes hilariously, politically incorrect.

chapter 1|49 pages

Characteristics and Typology of the Modern

chapter 2|29 pages

Social Evolution and the Modern State

chapter 3|32 pages

The Purpose of the State

chapter 6|34 pages

The Preservation of Order: Leviathan and

chapter 9|23 pages

The Extension of Representation

chapter 11|31 pages

The Mature Civilised State

chapter 13|19 pages

Globalisation and the State

chapter 14|26 pages

The Future of the State