Ambassador Eduard Habsburg
Building a Family Legacy
The Habsburg Way: 7 Tools for Turbulent Times
In this episode of the Moral Imagination Podcast I speak with Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta, Eduard Habsburg, about his book The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times. We discuss a number of themes including some history of the Habsburg Dynasty, the life and death of of Blessed Charles of Austria, the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, including the remarkable tradition of the funeral for Habsburg emperors. We also discuss themes of marriage, children, religion, technology, liturgy, and especially the importance of family and tradition to provide rootedness in a time of individualism and “liquid modernity.” Other themes and topics include
Different visions of Subsidiarity — Catholic Social Teaching vs. European Union
Decentralization and localism vs. Devolution of power from a central state
Technocratic Politics
Alexis de Tocqueville on Individualism and Centralization
Robert Nisbet on the Quest for Community
Joseph Ratzinger — What it means to be a Christian and the “Copernican Revolution” away from self
Liturgy as non-linguistic catechesis
The Human Person as Embodied and Embedded
and more
Biography
Eduard Habsburg is the Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta. He is the author of The Habsburg Way. 7 Rules for Turbulent Times from Sophia Press and Dubbie: The Double-Headed Eagle. Full Quiver Publishing, 2020. You can connect and follow him on Twitter at @EduardHabsburg
Resources
Podcast with Mary Eberstadt on her book Primal Screams
Podcast: Introduction to the thought of Robert Nisbet - Michael Matheson Miller