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 Moser), 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 Lubbe), 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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