The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics

ISBN-13: 9783030246815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 255 str.

Matthew Allan McManus

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Table of Contents

 

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Dylan DeJong

 

Section One: Post-Modern Culture and Neoliberal Society

 

Preface-The Roots of Post-Modern Conservatism

·         The Optimistic End of History

·         The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism

·         Chapter Breakdown

 

Chapter One- Post-Modernism as Philosophy and Post-Modernism as Culture

·         The End of Modernism

·         The End of Grand Narratives: What is Post-Modernism?

·         The Emergence of Post-Modern Philosophy

·         Post-Modernism and Language

·         Understanding Post-Modernism as a Culture

·         Post-modernism as the Culture of Neoliberal Societies

 

Chapter Two- The Emergence of Post-Modern Culture in Neoliberal Society

·         The Political Discourse of Neoliberalism

·         Neoliberalism as the Governance of Society

·         What Characterizes Neoliberal Societies? I: Socio-Political Transformations

·         What Characterizes Neoliberal Societies? II: Economic Transformations

·         What Characterizes Neoliberal Societies? III: Technological Transformations

·         “Everything that is Solid Melts Into the Air”: Post-Modern Culture, Spheres of Life,

·         The Aesthetic Representation of Changing Experience of Time, Space, and Identity

·         Post-Modern Culture and Changing Relationships to Space

·         Post-Modern Culture and Changing Relationship to Time  

·        Post-Modern Culture and the Destabilization of Identity

·        Conclusion: Post-Modern Politics

 

Section Two: Post-Modern Conservatism in Theory and in Practice

                                                                                                         

Chapter Three- Who are the Post-Modern Conservatives?

·         The Genealogy of Post-Modern Conservatism

·         The Early Modern Origins of Post-Modern Conservatism: Edmund Burke

·         The Early Modern Origins of Post-Modern Conservatism: Joseph de Maistre

·         The Modern Origins of Post-Modern Conservatism: Oakeshott, Lord Devlin, Bork

·         Peter Lawler as the Apologist of Post-Modern Conservatism

·         The Emergence of Post-Modern Conservatism

·         The “Dissolution” of Traditionally Powerful Identities and the Formation of the Post-Modern Pastiche

·         The Schmittian Enemies of Post-Modern Conservatism

 

Chapter Four- Brexit, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism Across the Globe

·         The Political Mobilization of Post-Modern Conservatism Across the Globe

·         The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism in the United States

·         Post-Modern Conservatism in the United Kingdom

·         Post-Modern Conservatism in Poland

·         The Long March of Fidesz in Hungary

·         The Showbiz Conservatism of Italy

·         Post-Modern Conservatism as Political Practice

 

Section Three: Conclusion

 

Chapter Five- An Egalitarian Agenda for the Future

·         Contra-Fukuyama: Post-modern Conservatism and the Re-emergence of History

·         The Challenges Facing Post-Modern Conservatism

·         Conclusion: What Can be Done?-Modernizing Left Democracy for a Post-modern Epoch

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Matthew Allan McManus received his PhD from the Socio-Legal Studies program at York University, Canada in 2017, after acquiring an LL.M in International Human Rights Law from the National University of Ireland. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of TEC de Monterrey, Mexico.