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| Titre : | The Conservative Mind : From Burke to Eliot |
| Auteurs : | Russell Kirk, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | 6th revised ed. |
| Editeur : | Chicago [USA] : Regnery Gateway, 1978 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-89526-670-5 |
| Format : | iii + 468 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | TD (Politique) |
| Résumé : |
Since its first publication in 1953, The Conservative Mind has established itself as one of the landmark books of our time. Coming out when it did, as the liberal domination of American intellectual life was drawing to a close, the evidence of a conservative tradition came as a great illumination to many people. “Only Britain and America among the great nations,” Russell Kirk reminded his readers, “have escaped revolution since 1790, which seems attestation that their conservatism is a sturdy growth and that investigation of it may be regarding.”
Beginning with Edmund Burke, going on to the consideration of the ideas of such people as John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Hamilton, Walter Scott, Coleridge, John Randolph, Calhoun, Newman, Disraeli, Irving Babbitt, Paul Elmer More, and ending with T. S. Eliot, Kirk traces the “sturdy growth” of a tradition that has played a decisive and honorable part in the development of our society. And Kirk does so in prose of which Dr. Johnson himself would have approved. The Conservative Mind, however, is more than a history of conservative thought; it is a scholarly and eloquent presentation of a position we ignore at the peril of losing the qualities that have made a free and orderly society possible. It is a book for all those seriously interested in the nature and origins of our public institutions. |
| Note de contenu : |
- I. The Idea of Conservatism - II. Burke and the Politics of Prescription: 1. Burke’s career 2. The radical systems 3. Providence and veneration 4. Prejudice and prescription 5. The rights of civil social man 6. Equality and aristocracy 7. The principle of order - III. John Adams and Liberty under Law: 1. Federalists and Republicans 2. Alexander Hamilton 3. Fisher Ames’ vaticinations 4. John Adams as psychologist 5. The aristocracy of nature 6. American constitutions 7. Marshall and the metamorphosis of federalism - IV. Romantics and Utilitarians: 1. Benthamism and Walter Scott 2. Canning and enlightened conservatism 3. Coleridge and conservative ideas 4. The triumph of abstraction - V. Southern Conservatism: Randolph and Calhoun: 1. Southern impulses 2. Randolph on the peril of positive legislation 3. The rights of minorities: Calhoun 4. The valor of the South - VI. Liberal Conservatives: Macaulay, Cooter, Tocqueville: 1. Burke’s influence upon liberalism 2. Macaulay on democracy 3. Fenimore Cooper and a gentleman’s America 4. Tocqueville on democratic despotism 5. Democratic prudence - VII. Transitional Conservatism: New England Sketch: 1. Industrialism as a leveller 2. John Quincy Adams and progress: his aspirations and his failure 3. The illusions of transcendentalism 4. Brownson on the conservative power of Catholicism 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne: society and sin - VIII. Conservatism with Imagination: Disraeli and Newman: 1. Marx’s materialism; and the fruits of liberalism 2. Disraeli and Tory loyalties 3. Newman: the sources of knowledge and the idea of education 4. The age of discussion: Bagehot - IX. Legal and Historical Conservatism: a Time of Foreboding: 1. Liberalism and collectivism: John Stuart Mill, Comte, and positivism / 2. Stephen on the ends of life and politics / 3. Maine: status and contract / 4. Lecky: illiberal democracy - X. Conservatism Frustrated: America, 1865-1918: 1. The Gilded Age 2. James Russell Lowell’s perplexities 3. Godkin on democratic opinion 4. Henry Adams on the degradation of the democratic dogma 5. Brooks Adams and a world of terrible energies - XI. English Conservatism Adrift: the Twentieth Century: 1. The end of aristocratic politics: 1906 2. George Gissing and The Nether World 3. Arthur Balfour: his spiritual conservatism; and the ride of socialism 4. The books of W.H. Mallock: a conservative syndic 5. A dreary conservatism between wars - XII. Critical Conservatism: Babbitt, More, Santayana: 1. Pragmatism: the fumbling of America 2. Irving Babbitt’s humanism: the higher will in a democracy 3. Paul Elmer More on justice and faith 4. George Santayana buries liberalism 5. America in search of ideas - XIII. Conservatives’ Promise: 1. Radicalism’s sickness 2. The new elite 3. Scholar confronts intellectual 4. The conservative as poet - Notes - Bibliography |
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