Conservatism : an anthology of social and political thought from David Hume to the present / [electronic resource]
edited by Jerry Z. Muller.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.
- xviii, 450 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Of justice" from An enquiry concerning the principles of morals ; "Of the origin of government" ; "Of the original contract" ; "Of passive obedience" / "Preface" to A vindication of natural society / "On the diminished disgrace of whores and their children in our day" ; "No promotion according to merit" / Reflections on the revolution in France / On divorce / Essay on the generative principle of political constitutions and of other human institutions / "Federalist no. 49" / position and functions of the American Bar, as an element of conservatism in the state" / Culture and anarchy / Liberty, equality, fraternity / Aristocracy and evolution : a study of the rights, the origin, and social functions of the wealthier classes / "Aptitude and social mobility" / "Sociological fallacies" ; "On the case of a certain man who is never thought of" ; examination of a noble sentiment" / David Hume -- Edmund Burke -- Justus Möser -- Edmund Burke -- Louis de Bonald -- Joseph de Maistre -- James Madison -- Rufus Choate -- Matthew Arnold -- James Fitzjames Stephen -- W.H. Mallock -- Joseph A. Schumpeter -- William Graham Sumner -- "The "An "Essays on war" / "When Parliament cannot be sovereign" / "Political leadership and democracy" / "Speech on rebuilding the House of Commons" / "Rationalism in politics" / errors of constructivism" ; mirage of social justice / unheavenly city revisited / "Pornography, obscenity, and the case for censorship" / To empower people : the role of mediating structures in public policy / social consequences of attempts to create equality" / "On culture, nature, and naturalness" ; "Man and institutions" / "Toward a theory of culture" / T.E. Hulme -- Carl Schmitt -- Joseph A. Schumpeter -- Winston Churchill -- Michael Oakeshott -- Friedrich Hayek -- Edward Banfield -- Irving Kristol -- Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus -- Hermann Lübbe -- Arnold Gehlen -- Philip Rieff. "The The The "The
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 Lubbe), and Between Social Science and Cultural Criticism (Arnold Gehlen, Philip Rieff). The book contains an afterword on recurrent tensions and dilemmas of conservative thought.--Publisher description.