April 17, 2009

Recommended Reading List

Our Recommended Reading List will be periodically updated, so please remember to check back.

Harold Acton:
• The Bourbons of Naples (1734-1825)
• The Last Bourbons of Naples (1825-1861)
St. Thomas Aquinas
On Kingship
Hilaire Belloc:
The Great Heresies

Philippe Bénéton:
Critics of the Enlightenment

Louis de Bonald:
• The True and Only Wealth of Nations
• On Divorce
Jean Borella:
Christ the Original Mystery: Esoterism and the Mystical Way
• The Secret of the Christian Way: A Contemplative Ascent Through the Writings of Jean Borella


Christophe Buffin de Chosal:
The End of Democracy

Edmund Burke:
Reflections on the Revolution in France

Donoso Cortes:
Readings in Political Theory
• Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism
Charles A. Coulombe:
• The Compleat Monarchist
• Blessed Charles of Austria: A Holy Emperor and His Legacy
• A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grail
• The Pope's Legion: The Multinational Fighting Force that Defended the Vatican
Geoffrey De Charny:
• A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry
Thomas Crean & Alan Fimister:
• Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy
José Ortega y Gasset:
• The Revolt of the Masses
• Meditations on Hunting
• What is Knowledge?
• Velazquez, Goya, The Dehumanization of Art, and other essays
Nicolás Gómez-Dávila:

• Scholia to an Implicit Text
• The Authentic Reactionary: Selected Scholia of Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Otto von Habsgurg:
• Charles V

Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn:
• Menace of the Herd or Procrustes at Large
• Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Times
• Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot  


Pope Leo XIII:
 The Leonine Encyclicals, 1878-1902


Joseph de Maistre:
• Major Works, Vol. 1: Generative Principle of Political Constitutions; Considerations on France; Study on Sovereignty
• Major Works, Vol. 2: The Pope
• The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment
• St. Petersburg Dialogues or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence

Sebastian Morello:
 Mysticism, Magic, and Monasteries: Recovering the Sacred Mystery at the Heart of Reality
Jean Ousset:
 Action: A Manual for the Reconstruction of Christendom
Desmond Seward: 
• The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders

• Italy's Knights of St. George

Thomas Steven Molnar:
• The Counter-Revolution
• Utopia, the Perennial Heresy
• The Decline of the Intellectual
• Authority and Its Enemies
• Politics and the State
• God and the Knowledge of Reality


Plinio Correa de Oliveira:
• Egalitarianism: The Metaphysical Value and Religion of Our Days
• Revolution and Counter-Revolution
• Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites: A Theme Illuminating American Social History
Louis Veuillot:
The Liberal Illusion
Giambattista Vico:
• The New Science