Conservatism : : The Fight for a Tradition /

Conservatism : : The Fight for a Tradition / / Edmund Fawcett.

A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity. By doing so, the Right has won long perio...

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Fawcett, Edmund,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PART I Conservatism's Forerunners
  • One. Critics of Revolution
  • PART II What Conservatism Is
  • Two. Character, Outlook, and Labelling of Conservatism
  • PART III Conservatism's First Phase (1830-80): Resisting Liberalism
  • The Year 1830
  • Three. Parties and Politicians: A Right without Authority
  • Four. Ideas and Thinkers: Turning Reason against Liberalism
  • PART IV Conservatism's Second Phase (1880-1945): Adaptation and Compromise
  • The Year 1880
  • Five. Parties and Politicians: Authority Recovered and Squandered
  • Six. Ideas and Thinkers: Distrust of Democracy and of Public Reason
  • 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
  • Eight. Ideas and Thinkers: Answering Liberal Orthodoxies
  • PART VI Conservatism's Fourth Phase (1980 to the Present: Hyper-liberalism and the Hard Right
  • The Year 1980
  • Nine. Parties and Politicians: Letting in the Hard Right
  • Ten. Ideas and Thinkers: Yes or No to a Hyper-liberal Status Quo
  • 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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