Conservatism

Name: Conservatism | The Fight for a Tradition
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The Fight for a Tradition

Edmund Fawcett(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 20. Oktober 2020

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Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Conservatism's forerunners
One. Critics of Revolution
i. The Hard Authority of Punishment and Soft Authority of Custom: Maistre and Burke
ii. The Call of Faith and Beauty: Chateaubriand
iii. Order in Nations and among Nations: Gentz
iv. Revolution to Prevent Revolution: Madison
v. What the Critics Left to Conservatism
Part II. What Conservatism Is
Two. Character, Outlook, and Labelling of Conservatism
i. Conservatism as a Political Practice
ii. The Conservative Outlook
iii. Conservative and Liberal Outlooks Contrasted
iv. Bonding Spaces for Conservatives with Liberals
v. The Adaptability of Conservative Ideas
vi. "Conservatism," "the Right," and Other Label Troubles
vii. Dilemmas for Conservatives
viii. Fighting for a Tradition
Part III. Conservatism's First Phase (1830-80): Resisting Liberalism
The Year 1830
Three. Parties and Politicians: A Right without Authority
i. Improvisations of the French Right
ii. The British Right's Divided Heart: Peel or Disraeli
iii. German Conservatives without Caricature
iv. United States: Whigs and Jacksonians
Republicans and Democrats
Four. Ideas and Thinkers: Turning Reason against Liberalism
i. Constitutions for Unacceptable Ends: Calhoun
ii. Reason for the Right Replaces Nostalgia: Stahl
iii. How Conservatives Should Defend Religion: Lamennais, Ketteler, Newman, Brownson, and Hodge
iv. Conservatism's Need for Intellectuals: Coleridge's Clerisy
v. Against Liberal Individualism: Stephen, Gierke, and Bradley
Part IV. Conservatism's Second Phase (1880-1945): Adaptation and Compromise
The Year 1880
Five. Parties and Politicians: Authority Recovered and Squandered
i. The Moderate Right in France's Third Republic
ii. British Conservatives Adapt
iii. The Ambivalence of German Conservatives
iv. The American Nonexception
Six. Ideas and Thinkers: Distrust of Democracy and of Public Reason
i. Defending Capitalism: Mallock, Sumner, and Schumpeter
ii. Six Ways to Imagine the People: Treitschke, Le Bon, Du Camp, Adams, Mencken, and Sorel
iii. Cultural Decline and Ethical Anomie: Jünger and Other Germans, Drieu la Rochelle, the Southern Agrarians, and Eliot
iv. Funeral Oratory for Liberal Democracy: Schmitt and Maurras
Part V. Conservatism's Third Phase (1945-80): Political Command and Intellectual Recovery
The Year 1945
Seven. Parties and Politicians: Recovering Nerve and Rewinning Power
i. Normality, Pride, and Rage in France: Pinay, de Gaulle, and Poujade
ii. Tory Wets and Dries in Britain: Macmillan to Thatcher
iii. Remaking the German Middle Ground: Adenauer and Christian Democracy
iv. The US Right Divided: Eisenhower-Taft, Rockefeller-Goldwater, Ford-Reagan
Eight. Ideas and Thinkers: Answering Liberal Orthodoxies
i. Herald of the Hard Right: Powell
ii. Our Conservative Second Nature: Gehlen
iii. The Liberal Moderns' Fall from Grace: Weaver, Voegelin, and MacIntyre
iv. Winning the US Stage: Kirk, Buckley, and Kristol
Part VI. Conservatism's Fourth Phase (1980-the Present): Hyper-Liberalism and the Hard Right
The Year 1980
Nine. Parties and Politicians: Letting in the Hard Right
i. The Center-Right in the 1980s and 1990s
ii. The Rise of the Hard Right: The Le Pens, AfD, Brexit, and Trump
iii. The Theme Music of the Hard Right: Decline, Capture, Enemies, and Victimhood
iv. What Populism Is and Isn't
Ten. Ideas and Thinkers: Yes or No to a Hyper-liberal Status Quo
i. Right-Wing Liberals, Antiglobalists, and Moral-Cultural Conservatives
ii. The Hard Right in the American Grain: Buchanan, the Paleos, and Dreher
iii. The New Voices of the Right in Germany and France
iv. Three Unreconciled Thinkers: Finnis, Scruton, and Sloterdijk
v. For the Status-Quo: Pragmatism, the Via Media, Anxiety, or "Realism
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

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