Literature and the Conservative Ideal
Title | Literature and the Conservative Ideal PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Zunac |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN | 9781498512381 |
Responding in part to the postmodernist turn in literary study, Literature and the Conservative Ideal examines the ways in which conservatism has been depicted in literature, as well as how its tendencies might restore literature's potential as an artistic reflection of the universal human condition.
Literature and the Conservative Ideal
Title | Literature and the Conservative Ideal PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Zunac |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 207 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9781498512404 |
Responding in part to the postmodernist turn in literary study, Literature and the Conservative Ideal examines the ways in which conservatism has been depicted in literature, as well as how its tendencies might restore literature's potential as an artistic reflection of the universal human condition.
The Reactionary Mind
Title | The Reactionary Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Corey Robin |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 0190692006 |
Now updated to include Trump's election and the rise of global populism, Corey Robin's 'The Reactionary Mind' traces conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution.
The Conservative Aesthetic
Title | The Conservative Aesthetic PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen J. Mexal |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 365 |
Release | 2021-05-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1793632626 |
The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West offers an alternative origin story for American conservatism, tracing it to a circle of writers, artists, and thinkers in the late nineteenth century who yoked popular understandings of Darwin to western literary aesthetics. That circle included writer Owen Wister, artist Frederic Remington, entertainer William “Buffalo Bill” Cody, historian Frederick Jackson Turner, and a young Theodore Roosevelt. The book explores how their lives and their writing intertwined with their conservative sensibilities. For them, going west was akin to time travel, a retrogression into an earlier and hardier age. It was through those retrogressions into the American state of nature, they imagined, that society could discover its finest and fittest citizens. Such a society would be the modern realization of Thomas Jefferson’s century-old dream of a “natural aristocracy.” Theirs was a new conservatism, rooted not in a history of European monarchy but rather in stories about American individualism and the frontier west, updated for the age of Darwin.
Conservatism
Title | Conservatism PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Scruton |
Publisher | All Points Books |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2018-06-19 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1250170737 |
“...one of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western politics, philosophy and culture I have ever read...the ideal primer for those who are new to conservative ideas...” —Richard Aldous, Wall Street Journal A brief magisterial introduction to the conservative tradition by one of Britain’s leading intellectuals. In Conservatism, Roger Scruton offers the reader an invitation into the world of political philosophy by explaining the history and evolution of the conservative movement over the centuries. With the clarity and authority of a gifted teacher, he discusses the ideology's perspective on civil society, the rule of law, freedom, morality, property, rights, and the role of the state. In a time when many claim that conservatives lack a unified intellectual belief system, this book makes a very strong case to the contrary, one that politically-minded readers will find compelling and refreshing. Scruton analyzes the origins and development of conservatism through the philosophies and thoughts of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith and Milton Friedman, among others. He shows how conservative ideas have influenced the political sector through the careers of a diverse cast of politicians, such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Disraeli, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He also takes a close look at the changing relationship between conservative politics, capitalism, and free markets in both the UK and the US. This clear, incisive guide is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Western politics and policies, now and over the last three centuries.
JFK, Conservative
Title | JFK, Conservative PDF eBook |
Author | Ira Stoll |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 293 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0547585985 |
For the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy comes a sure-to-be-controversial argument that by virtually any standard, JFK was far more conservative than liberal.
Messengers of the Right
Title | Messengers of the Right PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Hemmer |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2016-09-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812248392 |
Messengers of the Right tells the story of the media activists who built the American conservative movement and transformed it into one of the most significant and successful movements of the twentieth century—and in the process remade the Republican Party and the American media landscape.