Pragmatic Conservatism
Edmund Burke and His American Heirs
This book is a study of pragmatic conservatism, an underappreciated tradition in modern American political thought, whose origins can be located in the ideas of Edmund Burke. Beginning with an exegesis of Burke's thought, it goes on to show how three twentieth-century thinkers who are not generally recognized as conservatives-Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Peter Viereck-carried on the Burkean tradition and adapted it to American democracy. Pragmatic conservatives posit that people, sinful by nature, require guidance from traditions that embody enduring truths wrought by past experience. Yet they also welcome incremental reform driven…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-349-94903-8
- EAN: 9781349949038
- Produktnummer: 19732665
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.2 cm 483 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2016
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 483
Über den Autor
Robert J. Lacey is Associate Professor of Political Science at Iona College, USA. He is also the author of American Pragmatism and Democratic Faith (2008).
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