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- Title: Discivilization in the Criticism of George A. Panichas (Critical Essay)
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 193 KB
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No American intellectual has offered more steadfast resistance over many decades to the decline of our civilization than George A. Panichas. As literary critic, book reviewer and editor of the most distinguished conservative journal, Modern Age, Panichas has contributed uniquely to our national life. The recent reissuing of Dostoevsky's Spiritual Art: The Burden of Vision (2005) reminds us that his thought is impelled by the urgency of a penetrating eschatalogical vision. Panichas believes that the "harrowing dimensions" of the "deadening of the American soul" are the consequence of a loss of "its point of orientation."1 In Panichas's view modern warfare is a significant instrument in the destabilization of the social order. During the past hundred and fifty years the expanding and mechanical lethality of war has contributed markedly to the sense of futility and betrayal permeating Western culture; it is a phenomenon that " ... inflicts death with a kind of measured, passionless intensity." The last phrase is taken from a remarkable essay Panichas wrote to introduce a volume of essays on World War I, Promise of Greatness: The War of 1914-1918 (1968). The volume represents a timely witness in a moment of national controversy over the wisdom of another war. It is also the outgrowth of an interest originating in stories Panichas heard in childhood, told by his father, who served on the Mexican-American border, but also by his father's friends and fellow soldiers, some of whom were gasvictims at the Western front.