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Pragmatic Conservatism
Robert J. Lacey
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Description for Pragmatic Conservatism
Hardback. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; HPS; JPA; JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
This book is a study of pragmatic conservatism, an underappreciated tradition in modern American political thought, whose origins can be located in the ideas of Edmund Burke. Beginning with an exegesis of Burke's thought, it goes on to show how three twentieth-century thinkers who are not generally recognized as conservatives—Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Peter Viereck—carried on the Burkean tradition and adapted it to American democracy. Pragmatic conservatives posit that people, sinful by nature, require guidance from traditions that embody enduring truths wrought by past experience. Yet they also welcome incremental reform driven by established elites, judiciously departing from precedent ... Read more
This book is a study of pragmatic conservatism, an underappreciated tradition in modern American political thought, whose origins can be located in the ideas of Edmund Burke. Beginning with an exegesis of Burke's thought, it goes on to show how three twentieth-century thinkers who are not generally recognized as conservatives—Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Peter Viereck—carried on the Burkean tradition and adapted it to American democracy. Pragmatic conservatives posit that people, sinful by nature, require guidance from traditions that embody enduring truths wrought by past experience. Yet they also welcome incremental reform driven by established elites, judiciously departing from precedent ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349949038
SKU
V9781349949038
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About Robert J. Lacey
Robert J. Lacey is Associate Professor of Political Science at Iona College, USA. He is also the author of American Pragmatism and Democratic Faith (2008).
Reviews for Pragmatic Conservatism
“Lacey chiefly discusses four writers he believes exemplify pragmatic conservatism: Edmund Burke, Walter Lippmann, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Peter Viereck. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” (M. Blitz, Choice, Vol. 54 (6), February, 2017)