The rise of common-sense conservatism : the American right and the reinvention of the Scottish enlightenment /: the American right and the reinvention of the Scottish enlightenment. (2021)
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- Book
- Title:
- The rise of common-sense conservatism : the American right and the reinvention of the Scottish enlightenment /: the American right and the reinvention of the Scottish enlightenment. (2021)
- Main Title:
- The rise of common-sense conservatism : the American right and the reinvention of the Scottish enlightenment
- Further Information:
- Note: Antti Lepistö.
- Authors:
- Lepistö, Antti
- Contents:
- Introduction: Speaking for the People in Culture Wars–Era America The Ordinary American as a Neoconservative Concept and Moral Authority Neoconservatives and Populist Persuasion The Neoconservative Culture Wars Chapter 1. The Coming of the Neoconservative Common Man The Rise of Neoconservatism and the Idea of Democratic Decadence The Economic Crisis of the 1970s and the Neoconservative Discovery of Adam Smith The Morality of Ordinary People in Scottish Philosophy Irving Kristol on Shared Moral Sentiments and the Bourgeois Way of Life The Sentimentalist Enlightenment: A Neoconservative Interpretation Speaking for Average White Americans: Neoconservatives and the Republican Party Chapter 2. James Q. Wilson and the Rehabilitation of Emotions Emotions as a Way of Knowing How Ordinary People Think The Man within the Average Joe's Breast Chapter 3. Family Values as Moral Intuitions: Neoconservatives and the War over the Family The Emergence of Family Values as a Neoconservative Theme The New Era of Sentiment in American Politics: Irving Kristol's Family Wars The Moral Sense as a Policy Compass: James Q. Wilson on Abortion and Gay Marriage A Neoconservative Philosophy of Moral Education The Battle over Nonjudgmentalism and the New Definitions of Deviancy Chapter 4. Moral Sentiments of the Black Underclass: Race in the Neoconservative Moral Imagination The Discovery of the Underclass: Urban Decay as a Question of Character The Wise and Virtuous Everyman and Other Americans in JamesIntroduction: Speaking for the People in Culture Wars–Era America The Ordinary American as a Neoconservative Concept and Moral Authority Neoconservatives and Populist Persuasion The Neoconservative Culture Wars Chapter 1. The Coming of the Neoconservative Common Man The Rise of Neoconservatism and the Idea of Democratic Decadence The Economic Crisis of the 1970s and the Neoconservative Discovery of Adam Smith The Morality of Ordinary People in Scottish Philosophy Irving Kristol on Shared Moral Sentiments and the Bourgeois Way of Life The Sentimentalist Enlightenment: A Neoconservative Interpretation Speaking for Average White Americans: Neoconservatives and the Republican Party Chapter 2. James Q. Wilson and the Rehabilitation of Emotions Emotions as a Way of Knowing How Ordinary People Think The Man within the Average Joe's Breast Chapter 3. Family Values as Moral Intuitions: Neoconservatives and the War over the Family The Emergence of Family Values as a Neoconservative Theme The New Era of Sentiment in American Politics: Irving Kristol's Family Wars The Moral Sense as a Policy Compass: James Q. Wilson on Abortion and Gay Marriage A Neoconservative Philosophy of Moral Education The Battle over Nonjudgmentalism and the New Definitions of Deviancy Chapter 4. Moral Sentiments of the Black Underclass: Race in the Neoconservative Moral Imagination The Discovery of the Underclass: Urban Decay as a Question of Character The Wise and Virtuous Everyman and Other Americans in James Q. Wilson's The Moral Sense A Poor Man's Moral Sense and the Ethic of Self-Help Chapter 5. Retributive Sentiments and Criminal Justice: James Q. Wilson on Crime and Punishment The Mid-1990s Tough-on-Crime Frenzy and Wilson's Penal Populism Moral Sentiments and Criminal Justice Neoconservative Moral Sentimentalism, Color Blindness, and Mass Incarceration Chapter 6. Elite Multiculturalism and the Spontaneous Morality of Everyday People: Francis Fukuyama's Culture Wars Straussian Cultural Pessimists and the Failures of Liberalism The Liberal Democratic Citizen and the Lost Thymos Losing the Language of Straussian Pessimism: Fukuyama's Moral Sense Idea Fukuyama's Culture Wars: Elite Multiculturalism versus Popular Moral Sentiments The Moral Sense and Spontaneous Order: Neoconservative Moralism Meets the Neoliberal Order Epilogue: Neoconservative Culture Warriors and the Boundaries of the People Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Unpublished Primary Sources Published Primary Sources Secondary Literature Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 320.520973
Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Culture conflict -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Ethics -- United States
Common sense - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780226774183
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780226774046
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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