The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that
motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book, The Quest for
Community. In fact, Conservatism unites virtually all of Nisbet's
work. In it, Nisbet deals with the political causes of the manifold
forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for community.
The sovereign political state is more than a legal relationship of
a superstructure of power, it is inseparable from its successive
penetrations of man's economic, religious, kinship and local
allegiances, and its revolutionary dislocations of established
centers of power.Nisbet holds that although political philosophers
are often conceived in terms of their views of the individual and
the state, a more useful approach adds the factor of social groups
or communities mediating between the individual and the state. Such
groups comprise "society" the protection of which is the "sole
object" of the conservative tradition, according to Nisbet. This
conservative ideology arose in the West as a reaction to the French
Revolution and its perceived impact upon traditional society.
Edmund Burke was the first spokesman of the new ideology. In this
book, Nisbet argues that modern conservatism throughout the West
can be seen as a widening of Burke's indictment not only of the
French Revolution, but of the larger revolution we have come to
call modernity.From Edmund Burke and his contemporaries such as
Bonald, de Maistre, Haller, and Savigny, down to T.S. Eliot,
Christopher Dawson, Michael Oakeshott, Irving Babbit, Paul Elmer
More, and Russell Kirk, the essential themes of political
conservatism remained the same. They are centered upon history,
tradition, property, authority, liberty and religion, and attack
equally the political collectivism and radical individualism that
have the same irrational outcomes. Nisbet makes the point that, at
present, conservatism is also in a crisis, one created in large
measure by mixing in the political arena economic liberalism and
welfare state socialism - a lethal mix for conservative politics.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2017 |
First published: |
2002 |
Authors: |
Robert Nisbet
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
130 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-52107-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
|
LSN: |
1-138-52107-8 |
Barcode: |
9781138521070 |
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