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Pragmatic Conservatism - Edmund Burke and His American Heirs (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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Pragmatic Conservatism - Edmund Burke and His American Heirs (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book is a study of pragmatic conservatism, an underappreciated
tradition in modern American political thought, whose origins can
be located in the ideas of Edmund Burke. Beginning with an exegesis
of Burke's thought, it goes on to show how three twentieth-century
thinkers who are not generally recognized as conservatives-Walter
Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Peter Viereck-carried on the
Burkean tradition and adapted it to American democracy. Pragmatic
conservatives posit that people, sinful by nature, require guidance
from traditions that embody enduring truths wrought by past
experience. Yet they also welcome incremental reform driven by
established elites, judiciously departing from precedent when
necessary. Mindful that truth is never absolute, they eschew
ideology and caution against both bold political enterprises and
stubborn apologies for the status quo. The book concludes by
contrasting this more nuanced brand of conservatism with the
radical version that emerged in the wake of the post-war Buckley
revolution.
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