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of Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
2003).
21
See Mansfield, Manliness, pp. 59-61, 220.
22
Cf. Tom Wolfe, “Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died,” in Hooking Up (New York:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001), with Mansfield, Manliness, pp. 220-224.
23
Everything I know about Kant and human dignity and more can be found in
Susan M. Shell, “Kant and Human Dignity,” in In Defense of Human Dignity:
Essays for Our Times, ed. Robert P. Kraynak and Glenn Tinder (Notre Dame, Indiana:
University of Notre Dame Press, 2003), pp. 53-80; see also her essay in this
volume.
24
See Mansfield, op. cit., pp. 59-61, 220.
25
See the work of Walker Percy here; an introduction is found in my Postmodernism
Rightly Understood (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), chapters
3 and 4, as well as in chapters 5 and 10 of my Aliens in America (Wilmington,
Delaware: ISI Books, 2002). The best introduction to Percy’s work for those with
little patience for novels is his Lost in the Cosmos.
26
See Manent, op. cit., pp. 191-96.
27
See my “McWilliams and the Problem of Political Education,” in Perspectives on
Political Science 35 (Fall, 2006): 213-218. This issue of PPS is devoted to the work
of Wilson Carey McWilliams, the most profound defender in our time of the connection
between human dignity and egalitarian political community. And also see,
of course, part 1 of volume 2 of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.
28
This question is what animates part 1 of volume 2 of Tocqueville’s Democracy in
America. See also my Stuck with Virtue, especially the introduction.
29
Delsol, op. cit., pp. 194-195.
30
See Robert P. Kraynak, “‘Made in the Image of God’: The Christian View of Human
Dignity and Political Order,” in In Defense of Human Dignity, pp. 81-118, as
well as the essay by Kraynak in this volume.
31
Václav Havel, Open Letters (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), p. 263.
32
Leon R. Kass, Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
(San Francisco, California: Encounter Books, 2002), p. 248.
33
The claims in this paragraph are supported through the use of the work of Walker
Percy in my Postmodernism Rightly Understood, chapters 3 and 4.