Conservatism : : An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present / / Jerry Z. Muller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Muller, Jerry Z.,
• MitwirkendeR: Arnold, Matthew,; Banfield, Edward,; Berger, Peter L.,; Bonald, Louis de,; Burke, Edmund,; Choate, Rufus,; Churchill, Winston,; Fitzjames Stephen, James,; Gehlen, Arnold,; Graham Sumner, William,; Hayek, Friedrich,; Hulme, T. E.,; Hume, David,; Kristol, Irving,; Lubbe, Hermann,; Madison, James,; Maistre, Joseph de,; Mallock, W. H.,; Moser, Justus,; Neuhaus, Richard John,; Oakeshott, Michael,; Rieff, Philip,; Schmitt, Carl,; Schumpeter, Joseph A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (464 p.)

At a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is distinctive about conservative social and political thought. It is an anthology with an argument, locating the origins of modern conservatism within the Enlightenment and distinguishing between conservatism and orthodoxy. Bringing together important specimens of European and American conservative social and political analysis from the mid-eighteenth century through our own day, Conservatism demonstrates that while the particular institutions that conservatives have sought to conserve have varied, there are characteristic features of conservative argument that recur over time and across national borders. The book proceeds chronologically through the following sections: Enlightenment Conservatism (David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Justus Möser), The Critique of Revolution (Burke, Louis de Bonald, Joseph de Maistre, James Madison, and Rufus Choate), Authority (Matthew Arnold, James Fitzjames Stephen), Inequality (W. H. Mallock, Joseph A. Schumpeter), The Critique of Good Intentions (William Graham Sumner), War (T. E. Hulme), Democracy (Carl Schmitt, Schumpeter), The Limits of Rationalism (Winston Churchill, Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Edward Banfield), The Critique of Social and Cultural Emancipation (Irving Kristol, Peter Berger and Richard John Neuhaus, Hermann Lübbe), and Between Social Science and Cultural Criticism (Arnold Gehlen, Philip Rieff). The book contains an afterword on recurrent tensions and dilemmas of conservative thought.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: What is Conservative Social and Political Thought? -- Chapter 1. Enlightenment Conservatism -- "Of Justice," from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) -- Edmund Burke "Preface" to A Vindication of Natural Society (Second Edition, 1757) -- "On the Diminished Disgrace of Whores and Their Children in Our Day" (1772) -- "No Promotion According to Merit" (c. 1770) Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Critique of Revolution -- Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) -- On Divorce (1801) -- Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and of Other Human Institutions (1814) -- "Federalist No. 49" (1788) -- "The Position and Functions of the American Bar, as an Element of Conservatism in the State" (1845) -- Chapter 3. Authority -- Culture and Anarchy (1869) -- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1874) -- Chapter 4. Inequality -- Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and Social Functions of the Wealthier Classes (1898) -- "Aptitude and Social Mobility" (1927) -- Chapter 5. The Critique of Good Intentions -- "Sociological Fallacies" (1884) "On the Case of a Certain Man Who Is Never Thought Of" (1883) -- "An Examination of a Noble Sentiment" (c. 1887) -- Chapter 6. War -- "Essays on War" (1916) -- Chapter 7. Democracy -- "When Parliament Cannot be Sovereign" (1931) -- "Political Leadership and Democracy" (1942) -- Chapter 8. The Limits of Rationalism -- "Speech on Rebuilding the House of Commons" (1943) -- "Rationalism in Politics" (1947) -- "The Errors of Constructivism" (1970) and The Mirage of Social Justice (1973) -- The Unheavenly City Revisited (1974) -- Chapter 9. The Critique of Social and Cultural Emancipation -- "Pornography, Obscenity, and the Case for Censorship" (1971) -- To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy (1977 -- "The Social Consequences of Attempts to Create Equality" (1984) -- Chapter 10. Between Social Science and Cultural Criticism -- "On Culture, Nature, and Naturalness" (1958) and "Man and Institutions" (1960) -- "Toward a Theory of Culture" (1966) -- Afterword: Recurrent Tensions and Dilemmas of Conservative Thought -- Guide to Further Reading -- Index