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Book Discussion – Conservatism by Jerry Muller

03/29/2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm CEST

Host Organization: Europe - Braver Angels Alliance - Europe
Setting: Online

Note: This event is to be attended online at 7pm Central European Time/ 1pm EST

Join us for a lively 2 hour long discussion on Conservatism by Jerry Muller

At a time when the label “conservative” is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is distinctive about conservative social and political thought. It is an anthology with an argument, locating the origins of modern conservatism within the Enlightenment and distinguishing between conservatism and orthodoxy. Bringing together important specimens of European and American conservative social and political analysis from the mid-eighteenth century through our own day, Conservatism demonstrates that while the particular institutions that conservatives have sought to conserve have varied, there are characteristic features of conservative argument that recur over time and across national borders

The book proceeds chronologically through the following sections:
  • Enlightenment Conservatism (David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Justus Möser)
  • The Critique of Revolution (Burke, Louis de Bonald, Joseph de Maistre, James Madison, and Rufus Choate)
  • Authority (Matthew Arnold, James Fitzjames Stephen)
  • Inequality (W. H. Mallock, Joseph A. Schumpeter)
  • The Critique of Good Intentions (William Graham Sumner)
  • War (T. E. Hulme)
  • Democracy (Carl Schmitt, Schumpeter)
  • The Limits of Rationalism (Winston Churchill, Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Edward Banfield)
  • The Critique of Social and Cultural Emancipation (Irving Kristol, Peter Berger and Richard John Neuhaus, Hermann Lübbe)
  • Between Social Science and Cultural Criticism (Arnold Gehlen, Philip Rieff).

The book contains an afterword on recurrent tensions and dilemmas of conservative thought.

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Date:
03/29/2023
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm CEST
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Europe Alliance
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Host Organization
Europe - Braver Angels Alliance - Europe
Setting
Online

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