Conservatism (eBook)

The Fight for a Tradition

Edmund Fawcett (Autor)

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2020
544 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20777-3 (ISBN)

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A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long periods of power and effectively become the dominant tradition in politics. Yet, despite their success, conservatives have continued to fight with each other about how far to compromise with liberalism and democracy-or which values to defend and how. In Conservatism, Edmund Fawcett provides a gripping account of this conflicted history, clarifies key ideas, and illuminates quarrels within the Right today.Focusing on the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, Fawcett's vivid narrative covers thinkers and politicians. They include the forerunners James Madison, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre; early friends and foes of capitalism; defenders of religion; and builders of modern parties, such as William McKinley and Lord Salisbury. The book chronicles the cultural critics and radical disruptors of the 1920s and 1930s, recounts how advocates of laissez-faire economics broke the post 1945 consensus, and describes how Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and their European counterparts are pushing conservatism toward a nation-first, hard Right.An absorbing, original history of the Right, Conservatism portrays a tradition as much at war with itself as with its opponents.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Adenauer • Aesthetics • aesthetic theory • AfD • American • American National Biography • Ancien Régime • Anthony Seldon • antipathy • archaeology • author • authoritarianism • Big Government • bolsheviks • Brexit • British • Buchanan • Capitalism • Career • Case study • Censorship • Centre-left politics • Centre-right politics • centrism • Charles de Gaulle • Chateaubriand • chauvinism • Close reading • Cold War II • Collective identity • Collectivism • communism • conservative intellectuals • Conservative liberalism • Conservative Party (UK) • Criticism • Cultural • Cultural Studies • debut novel • de Gualle • Democracy • Democratic liberalism • Diary • dichotomy • dieu • discourse • Disraeli • dissent • Dreher • economic • economic democracy • economic liberalism • Eisenhower • Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences • Enoch Powell • Epigraph (literature) • Essay • Far Right • far-right politics • Fascism • Feminism • Fiction • Finnis • Ford • Free Trade • French • French Literature • General Election • Genre • George Sand • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel • German • German National People's Party • goldwater • Government • hegemony • hermeneutics • Historical materialism • Historic Compromise • hostility • Ibid (short story) • idealism • Ideology • illusions perdues • Inception • Individualism • insignificance • Institution • Intellectual • Intellectual history • intentionality • jacksonian democracy • John C. Calhoun • Joseph de Maistre • Konrad Adenauer • Kristol • Kulturkampf • Left–right politics • left-wing politics • Legitimists • Les Fleurs du Mal • Liberal conservatism • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Libertarianism • Libertarian Party (United States) • Liberty • Literary criticism • Literature • Manifesto • Margaret Thatcher • Marie Le Pen • Marine Le Pen • Martin Heidegger • Marxism • Marxist literary criticism • Materialism • Memoir • Michel Foucault • Modernity • monarchism • Morality • Nancy Armstrong • narrative • National Front • Nationalism • Nazism • New Literary History • Novel • novelist • originality • Paleos • Peel • Periodization • pessimism • Philosopher • Philosophy • Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche • Phrase • Pippa Norris • Poetry • Political • Political Correctness • Political Liberalism • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Politician • Politics • popular sovereignty • Populism • post-structuralism • preface • Prehistory • Prejudice • Present Day • Private Sphere • Problem Solving • Protestantism • prussia • Puritans • Radicalism (historical) • Reactionary • Reformism • Religion • Representative Democracy • Republicanism • rhetoric • Richard Hofstadter • right-wing politics • right-wing populism • Rockefeller • Roger Scruton • Romanticism • Ronald Reagan • Ruler • Russell Kirk • Satire • Schumpeter • Scruton • Secularism • Self-Help • Sentimental Education • sentimentality • Slavery • Sloterdijk • Social Criticism • Social Democracy • Socialism • social liberalism • Social novel • Social Order • Social Practice • social relation • Sociology of Literature • Southern Agrarians • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • Standpoint (magazine) • State (polity) • Stendhal • Suggestion • Surveying • Taft • tariff • Tax • Thatcherism • The American Conservative • theory • The Political Unconscious • The Realist • The Red and the Black • Thought • Tories • Tories (British political party) • Trump Republicans • T. S. Eliot • Two Kinds • Uncertainty • Utilitarianism • utopian socialism • Vernon Bogdanor • Vichy France • Voting • Wealth • Weimar Republic • Welfare Capitalism • Westphalian Sovereignty • whigs • Whigs (British political party) • William F. Buckley • women's studies • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20777-1 / 0691207771
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20777-3 / 9780691207773