Pragmatic conservatism : Edmund Burke and his American heirs /: Edmund Burke and his American heirs. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert J. Lacey.
• Authors: Lacey, Robert J
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Pragmatic Conservatism: A Burkean Inheritance; Movement Conservatism: With God on Their Side; Burke and His American Children; Notes; Chapter 2: Edmund Burke: Pragmatic Conservative; Introduction; "Leave the Americans as they anciently stood"; "The train of disorderly appetites"; "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors"; "A disposition to reform"; "To be wrong in theory and right in practice"; "Government is not made in virtue of natural rights"; "The species is wise"; Conclusion; Notes. Chapter 3: Walter Lippmann: Unlikely ConservativeIntroduction; "The method of freedom"; "Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized"; "The traditions of civility"; "Rational procedure is the ark of the covenant of the public philosophy"; "Truths are like the clothes of a growing boy, not like the shroud of a corpse"; "In our age the power of majorities tends to become arbitrary and absolute"; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: Reinhold Niebuhr: Prophetic Conservative; Introduction; "Edmund Burke, the great exponent of the wisdom of historical experience." "Here manual labor is drudgery and toil is slavery""The sin of man is that he seeks to make himself God"; "Traditions and customs hallowed by age through which our passions are ordered"; "The baneful effect of general and abstract programs upon the social life of man"; "Democracy has brought arbitrary power under check and made it responsible"; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: Peter Viereck: Reverent Conservative; Introduction; "Children, don't oversimplify"; "Every modern baby is still born a caveman baby"; "Aspirations of the past"; "Our road to hell will be paved with good inventions." "Particularized universality""The aristocratic spirit"; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Conservatism Agonistes: Leaving the Stag Hunt; "You should regulate more because we're all too greedy"; " ... they will still not voluntarily act to achieve that common or group interest"; " ... led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention"; " ... governments cannot be supported without great charge"; " ... character is all and circumstances nothing"; "The legitimate object of government"; Notes; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 255 pages)
• Subjects: 320.520973; Political science; Conservatism -- United States -- History; Political science -- United States -- Philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference; Conservatism; Political science -- Philosophy; Political Science -- History & Theory; Philosophy -- Political; Philosophy -- Movements -- Pragmatism; Political science & theory; Social & political philosophy; Western philosophy, from c 1900; Political theory; World politics; Political science_xPhilosophy; Pragmatism; Politics & government; United States; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137592958; 1137592958; 1349949035; 9781349949038
• Related ISBNs: 9781349949038
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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