The Common Mind

The Common Mind traces the theme of the sensus communis inherited from the medievals through the lives and writings of twelve literary figures in the modern age ranging from Thomas More and Jonathan Swift to C. S. Lewis and Russell Kirk. It is this quality argues the author which like natural law serves as the bedrock of orthodoxy of social and political order and which by its presence or absence determines the nature of every society. The Common Mind is an altogether uncommon achievement: a rich multivalent reading of our present cultural condition through a brilliant procession of literary portraits; and a critical work in the ongoing effort to recover a unity of life of understanding of principles--in short a common mind.