At a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to
fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates
of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and
historically informed presentation of what is distinctive about
conservative social and political thought. It is an anthology with an
argument, locating the origins of modern conservatism within the
Enlightenment and distinguishing between conservatism and orthodoxy.
Bringing together important specimens of European and American
conservative social and political analysis from the mid-eighteenth
century through our own day, Conservatism demonstrates that while the
particular institutions that conservatives have sought to conserve
have varied, there are characteristic features of conservative
argument that recur over time and across national borders. The book
proceeds chronologically through the following sections: Enlightenment
Conservatism (David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Justus Möser), The
Critique of Revolution (Burke, Louis de Bonald, Joseph de Maistre,
James Madison, and Rufus Choate), Authority (Matthew Arnold, James
Fitzjames Stephen), Inequality (W. H. Mallock, Joseph A. Schumpeter),
The Critique of Good Intentions (William Graham Sumner), War (T. E.
Hulme), Democracy (Carl Schmitt, Schumpeter), The Limits of
Rationalism (Winston Churchill, Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek,
Edward Banfield), The Critique of Social and Cultural Emancipation
(Irving Kristol, Peter Berger and Richard John Neuhaus, Hermann
Lübbe), and Between Social Science and Cultural Criticism (Arnold
Gehlen, Philip Rieff). The book contains an afterword on recurrent
tensions and dilemmas of conservative thought.
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ISBN
9780691213118
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
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Princeton University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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