American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9781412842518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 628 str.

Jr. Buckley

Opis

If America has been an unsympathetic environment for conservatism, conservatism has, nevertheless, demonstrated an extraordinary tenacity in politics, literature, law, religion, economics, and social thought. Conservatism forms a dissent within the liberal tradition, and also deserves a hearing from any serious student of American history. William F. Buckley, Jr. brought this issue to the forefront in this outstanding collection featuring some of the greatest political thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume illuminates many aspects of the elusive -conservatism- of which so much has been written, and helps to explain why it is that conservatism survives in politics, economics, social sciences, and the arts. Buckley has drawn from the works of renowned scholars and from those of relatively obscure figures, whose contributions he persuasively puts forward as deeply influential in the crystallization of modern conservative thought. This collection of essays begins by analyzing the history and background of American institutions. It then goes on to inspect strong American presumption in favor of the private sector and the nature of specific challenges to modern society, as well as the response of conservative thought and analysis to those challenges. Pluralists will welcome the approach in this book, and others will be excited by prestigious authors.

Spis treści

1: The Historical and Intellectual Background; 1: The Convenient State; 2: E Pluribus Unum: The American Consensus; 3: The Unwritten Constitution; 4: The Recrudescent American Conservatism; 2: The Limitations of the State; 5: The Masses in Representative Democracy; 6: Anarchist’s Progress; 7: Economics in One Lesson; 8: Freedom and the Planned Economy; 9: Capitalism and Freedom: A Concluding Note; 3: Contemporary Challenges and the Social Order; 10: On the Nature of Civil and Religious Liberty; 11: Democracy: The Two Majorities; 12: Communism: The Struggle for the World; 13: Race: Claims, Rights, and Prospects; 14: Planned Mediocrity in the Public Schools; 15: The City: Some Myths About Diversity; 16: The Problem of the New Order; 17: The New Scholarship: The Relevance of “The Reactionaries”; 4: The Relevance of Social Science; 18: The New Political Science; 19: Sociology and the Theory of Progress; 20: Gnosticism— The Nature of Modernity; 21: Burke and Radical Freedom; 5: The Spiritual Crisis; 22: The Direct Glance; 23: Isaiah’s Job; 24: Christmas in Christendom; 25: Epilogue

O autorze

William F. Buckley Jr.