Paul Gottfried

Paul Edward Gottfried

Paul E. Gottfried
Born November 21, 1941
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
School Paleoconservatism
Main interests
Welfare state, democratic pluralism, Romanticism

Paul Edward Gottfried (born November 21, 1941) is an American paleoconservative political philosopher, intellectual historian, columnist and former Horace Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, as well as a Guggenheim recipient. He is currently H. L. Mencken Club President.[1]

Career

He is the author of numerous books and articles detailing the influences which various German thinkers (such as Hegel and Schelling) have exerted on American conservative political theory, and was a friend of many political and intellectual figures: such as Richard Nixon, Pat Buchanan, John Lukacs, Thomas Molnar, Will Herberg, Samuel T. Francis, Paul Piccone, Murray Rothbard, Eugene Genovese, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Nisbet. Gottfried is a paleoconservative critic of neoconservativism within the Republican Party.

Selected publications

Books

Articles

References

  1. "The HL Mencken Club". H. L. Mencken. Retrieved 2012-02-26.

External links

Column archives

Interviews

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