The Guardians of Concepts : : Political Languages of Conservatism in Britain and West Germany, 1945-1980 / / Martina Steber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Steber, Martina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in British and Imperial History ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (556 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Preface to the German Edition of 2017 --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 Conservatism and Toryism: Concepts of Self-Description in the Political Languages of Conservatism in the United Kingdom --; Chapter 2 The Arduous Quest for Conservatism in the Federal Republic of Germany --; Chapter 3 Initial Conclusions: Political Languages of Conservatism in Comparison – Conceptual Divergences and Structural Similarities --; Chapter 4 Entering into European Conversation: CDU, CSU and the Conservative Party in Search for a Shared Political Language --; Conclusion --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800738270; 9783110997705
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800738270
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Martina Steber.

National and transnational debates in Britain and Germany surrounding the meaning of the word “conservative” continue to have far-reaching political consequences. After 1945, even while the term was an accepted part of the political vocabulary of Great Britain, in the Federal Republic of Germany their young democracy was conflicted due to anti-democratic instability. The Guardians of Concepts analyzes the historical changes in the political languages of conservatism in the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany between 1945 and the early 1980s which plagued intellectuals, politicians, and entire parties. As one of the most difficult concepts in both the political and historiographical vocabulary of the German language, conservatism’s analysis takes a linguistically focused path through comprehensive and transnational connection of intellectual history with the history of politics, which are subjects that are otherwise commonly addressed separately from each other.