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James Everett Seaton, Professor, Department of English, Michigan State University

Michigan State University

Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...

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James Seaton was born in Iowa, received B. A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana, and .earned a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature with a major in Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

and Latin

Latin

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from the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...

. He is a professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University

Michigan State University

, where he has taught since 1971. Seaton is married to playwright Sandra Seaton.

James Seaton has written or edited four books and published over 100 articles. He is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title September 18, 1995. Currently edited by founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard has been described as a "redoubt of...

, and his essays and reviews have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

, The Hudson Review
The Hudson Review
The Hudson Review is a quarterly journal of literature and the arts. It was founded in 1947 in New York by William Ayers Arrowsmith, Joseph Deericks Bennett, and George Frederick Morgan. The first issue was introduced in the spring of 1948...

, The American Scholar (magazine)
The American Scholar (magazine)
The American Scholar is the literary quarterly of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, founded in 1932. The magazine has won fourteen National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors from 1999 to present, including awards for General Excellence...

, Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, First Things
First Things
First Things is an ecumenical journal focused on creating a "religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". The journal is inter-denominational and inter-religious, representing a broad intellectual tradition of Christian and Jewish critique of contemporary society...

, Modern Age
Modern Age
Modern Age is an American conservative academic quarterly journal, founded in 1957 by Russell Kirk in close collaboration with Henry Regnery...

, The University Bookman, The Review of Metaphysics and The Journal of the History of Ideas, and many other academic and non-academic publications.

Books Written or Edited by Seaton

The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States by George Santayana
George Santayana
George Santayana was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States and identified himself as an American. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters...

. Edited and with an introduction by James Seaton, with essays by James Seaton, Wilfred McClay, John Lachs, and Roger Kimball. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2009.
Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism: From Criticism to Cultural Studies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Beyond Cheering and Bashing: New Perspectives on The Closing of the American Mind. Edited by William K. Buckley and James Seaton. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green SU Popular Press, 1992.

A Reading of Vergil's Georgics. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1983.

Seaton's Contributions to Books

Introduction to Santayana Edition volume of Three Philosophical Poets from MIT Press. Forthcoming.

“George Santayana as a Cultural Critic.” Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana. Ed. Matthew Caleb Flamm and Krzysztof Piotr Skowroňski. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 111-20.

“Affirming the Principle.” Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man. Ed. Lucas E. Morel. Lexington, Kentucky: UP of Kentucky, 2004. 22-36.

“Henry James's The Princess Casamassima: Revolution and the Preservation of Culture.” The Moral of the Story: Literature and Public Ethics. ed. Henry T. Edmondson III. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2000. 15-25.

"The Beauty of Middle‑Class Virtue: Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! The Moral of the Story: Literature and Public Ethics. ed. Henry T. Edmondson III. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2000. 193-202.

"Afterword: Midwestern Muckrakers." Exploring the Midwestern Literary Imagination: Essays in Honor of David D. Anderson. Ed. Marcia Noe. Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing Company, 1993. 203-208.

"The Humanities and Cultural Criticism: The Example of Ralph Ellison." Rejuvenating the Humanities. Ed. Ray Browne and Marshall Fishwick. Bowling Green: Bowling Green SU popular P, 1992. 101-108.

"Innocence Regained; the Career of Leslie Fiedler." Politics and the Muse: Studies in the Politics of Recent American Literature Ed. Adam J. Sorkin. Bowling Green: Bowling Green SU Popular P, 1989. 93-110.

External links

“The Liberal Paradox: Why Lionel Trilling’s 1950 classic remains essential reading in 2009.” The Weekly Standard 14.46 (August 31, 2009): 34-5. Available online at http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/016/857foypf.asp.

“Dr. Franklin's Remedy.” The Weekly Standard 14.31 (May 4, 2009): 40-1. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/016/438qiepq.asp.

“Alive in the Mind.” The Weekly Standard 14.28 (April 6, 2009): 36-8. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/016/327bmelm.asp.

“Defending the Humanities.” The Good Society
The Good Society
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17.2 (2008): 76-80. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/good_society/v017/17.2.seaton.html.

“A Stirring Defense of the Conversation.” http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/a-stirring-defense/.

“His Master’s Voice: Edmund Wilson in the Library of America.” The Weekly Standard 13.36 (June 2, 2008): 35-7. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/015/130kxaam.asp.

“The Word is Out: The Textbook that Teaches Life is a Text.” The Weekly Standard 13.23 (February 25, 2008):45-6. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/014/748ytlqa.asp.

“Lyric Poetry, the Novel, and Revolution: Milan Kundera’s Life is Elsewhere.” Humanitas XX, 1-2 (2007): 86- 95. http://www.nhumanities.org/seaton20-1.pdf.

“Romantic at Heart: Bloom's critique of unreason, and what it owes to Santayana.” The Weekly Standard 13.14 (December 17, 2007): 42-5. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/014/452jkvcp.asp.

“Woman of Letters.” The Weekly Standard 13.1 (September 17, 2007): 38-41. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/014/070hhytw.asp

“Prudential Conservatism?” The University Bookman 45:2 (Spring 2007): 10-16. http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/prudential-conservatism.

“Joseph Conrad’s Moral Imagination.” Humanitas XIX, 1-2 (2006): 65-70. http://www.nhinet.org/seaton19-1.pdf.

“Mother Tongue.” The Weekly Standard 12.28 (April 2, 2007): 38-40. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/013/446muwow.asp.

“The Appiahn Way: How to Do the Right Thing in the 21st century.” The Weekly Standard 12.3 (October 9, 2006): 38-9. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/012/758piftw.asp.

“Natural Selection.” . The Weekly Standard. 11.32 (May 8, 2006): 41-3. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/157vbnww.asp

“America’s Critic: Edmund Wilson, Mandarin in Chief.” The Weekly Standard 11.14 (December 19, 2005): 33-6. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/468krqrl.asp.

“The Enduring Mencken.” Modern Age. 46.4 (2004):352-6. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0354/is_4_46/ai_n8589927/pg_1.

“Irving Babbitt and Cultural Renewal.” Humanitas. XVI.1 (2003): 4-14. http://www.nhinet.org/seaton16-1.pdf.

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