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Chargement... The Death of Conservatism (2009)par Sam Tanenhaus
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A helpful, if somewhat rambling, historical analysis of the roots of current-day conservatism. Lind's 1995 "Why Intellectual Conservatism Died" (Dissent, Winter 1995) was more concise and, for me, a more coherent introduction to some of these ideas. However, Tanenhaus' is less strident in his critique than Lind. ( )
Tanhenhaus is brilliant and a masterful writer but this venture into intellectual history is not devoid of weaknesses. This obituary is premature, but the story leading up to it is deftly told... It traverses several decades of complex political change, so inevitably it neglects some important topics. What remains is an elegant brief history of the modern conservative movement, as unsparing in its critique of liberal hubris as of revanchist resentment.
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HTML: Sam Tanenhaus's essay "Conservatism Is Dead" prompted intense discussion and debate when it was published in the New Republic in the first days of Barack Obama's presidency. Now Tanenhaus, a leading authority on modern politics, has expanded his argument into a sweeping history of the American conservative movement. For seventy-five years, he argues, the Right has been split between two factions: consensus-driven "realists," who believe in the virtue of government and its power to adjust to changing conditions, and movement "revanchists," who distrust government and society---and often find themselves at war with America itself. Eventually, Tanenhaus writes, the revanchists prevailed, and the result is the decadent "movement conservatism" of today, a defunct ideology that is "profoundly and defiantly unconservative---in its arguments and ideas, its tactics and strategies, above all in its vision." But there is hope for conservatism. It resides in the examples of pragmatic leaders like Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan and thinkers like Whittaker Chambers and William F. Buckley, Jr. Each came to understand that the true role of conservatism is not to advance a narrow ideological agenda but to engage in a serious dialogue with liberalism and join with it in upholding "the politics of stability." Conservatives today need to rediscover the roots of this honorable tradition. It is their only route back to the center of American politics. At once succinct and detailed, penetrating and nuanced, The Death of Conservatism is a must-listen for Americans of any political persuasion. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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