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Literature and the Conservative Ideal (Hardcover)
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Literature and the Conservative Ideal (Hardcover)
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By examining the ways in which the conservative vision of the world
informs certain modes of literary study and has been treated in
various works of literature throughout the ages, this book seeks to
recover conservatism as a viable, rigorous, intellectually sound
method of critical inquiry. While it stops short of promoting
political conservatism as an antidote to the dominant progressive
strain of today's university, it recognizes literature's
transformative power as an artistic reflection of the universal
human condition. In this way, it operates against the grain of
today's prevailing approaches to literature, particularly the
postmodernist wave that has employed literature as a recorder of
injustice rather than as evidence of artistic achievement.
Therefore, the agenda is restorative, if not revolutionary,
returning literature to its place as the center of a true liberal
arts curriculum, one that celebrates human freedom, the unimpeded
pursuit of truth, and the preservation of civilized life. Perhaps
this book's greatest service is that it seeks to define
conservatism in highly distinct contexts. Its authors collectively
reveal that the conservative ideal lacks formulaic expression, and
is thus more richly complex than it is often credited for.
Conservatism is not easily defined, and by presenting such
divergent expressions of it, the essays here belie the reductive
generalizations so common throughout the academy. Ultimately, the
conservative ideal may have much more in common with the stated
goals of higher learning than has previously been acknowledged.
Thus, while this book in no way seeks to directly apply
conservatism to curricular matters, it does revive a competing
vision of how knowledge is transmitted through art and history,
while also affirming the ways in which literature functions as a
forum for ideas.
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