| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 525 pages) |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- One. Critics of Revolution -- Two. Character, Outlook, and Labelling of Conservatism -- The Year 1830 -- Three. Parties and Politicians: A Right without Authority -- Four. Ideas and Thinkers: Turning Reason against Liberalism -- The Year 1880 -- Five. Parties and Politicians: Authority Recovered and Squandered -- Six. Ideas and Thinkers: Distrust of Democracy and of Public Reason -- The Year 1945 -- Seven. Parties and Politicians: Recovering Nerve and Rewinning Power -- Eight. Ideas and Thinkers: Answering Liberal Orthodoxies -- The Year 1980 -- Nine. Parties and Politicians: Letting in the Hard Right -- Ten. Ideas and Thinkers: Yes or No to a Hyper-liberal Status Quo -- Coda: Choices for the Right -- Appendix A: Conservative Keywords -- Appendix B: Philosophical Sources of Conservative Thought -- Appendix C: Conservative Lives: A Gazetteer -- Works Consulted -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects |
| Summary |
"For 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."-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Adenauer |
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AfD |
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American |
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Brexit |
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British |
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Buchanan |
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Chateaubriand |
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Disraeli |
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Dreher |
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Eisenhower |
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Enoch Powell |
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Finnis |
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Ford |
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French |
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German |
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Goldwater |
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John C. Calhoun |
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Kristol |
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Marie Le Pen |
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Marine Le Pen |
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National Front |
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Paleos |
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Peel |
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Rockefeller |
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Schumpeter |
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Scruton |
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Sloterdijk |
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Southern Agrarians |
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T. S. Eliot |
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Taft |
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Tories |
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Trump Republicans |
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Whigs |
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William F. Buckley |
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conservative intellectuals |
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cultural |
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de Gualle |
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economic |
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far right |
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fascism |
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intellectual history |
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nationalism |
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political |
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populism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 06, 2020) |
| Subject |
Conservatism -- Philosophy
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Conservatism -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
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Conservatism
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Conservatism -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020020533 |
| ISBN |
9780691207773 |
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0691207771 |
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9780691213644 |
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069121364X |
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