Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- History of the Chapters -- Part 1. General Cultural Values -- I. Philosophy of Culture in the Present Age -- II. Does Postmodernism Have a Substance? -- III. Leibniz, Vico, and Alternative Modernities -- IV. Conservatism as a Branch of Liberalism -- V. Christian Democracy and Subsidiarity in the World -- VI. Christian Martyrdom and Christian Humanism -- VII. The Insertion of Religion: The Model of Benedict and Habermas -- VIII. Pieper, Hope, Imperfection, and Literature -- Part 2. General Literary Values -- IX. Globalism, Multiculturalism, and Comparative Literature -- X. Teaching Literature from a Catholic Angle -- XI. Literary Canons and Social Value Options -- XII. The Argument from Variety -- XIII. The Argument from Persecution -- XIV. The Argument from Practicality -- XV. The Argument from Opposition -- XVI. The Argument from Defeat -- Part 3. Specific Applicative Examples -- XVII. Following the Classics: Layers of Stylistic Mimesis -- XVIII. Reinventing Romanticism or Nineteeth-Century Kitsch? -- XIX. Ernst Jünger, Distance, Proximity, and Transfer of Cultural Values -- Part 4. Epilogue -- A Philosophical Garden (with Brief References to Sundry Published Material) -- Notes -- Index of Names.