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Is there what might be termed an 'exceptional' form of conservatism that is characteristically American, in contrast to conservatisms found in other countries? Are views that are identified in the United States as conservative necessarily congruent with what political theorists might class...

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Other Authors: Levinson, Sanford, 1941- (Editor, Contributor), Parker, Joel, 1968- (Editor, Contributor), Williams, Melissa S., 1960- (Editor, Contributor), Bogus, Carl T. (Contributor), Creppell, Ingrid (Contributor), Deneen, Patrick J., 1964- (Contributor), Eisenach, Eldon J. (Contributor), Garnett, Richard W. (Contributor), Gaus, Gerald F. (Contributor), Gilbert, Alan (Contributor), Jacobson, Arthur J. (Contributor), Kersch, Kenneth Ira, 1964- (Contributor), Kurth, James (Contributor), O'Neill, Johnathan G. (Johnathan George) (Contributor), Sidorsky, David (Contributor), Tarcov, Nathan (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : New York University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Conservatism > United States.
essays.
Essays.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781479852697
1479852694
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • A history of inherent contradictions: the origins and end of American conservatism / James R. Kurth
  • An interpretation of American conservative thought: political issues : conceptual differences, and attitudinal disjunctions / David Sidorsky
  • Conservatism in America?: a response to Sidorsky / Patrick J. Deneen
  • The worms and the octopus: religious freedom, pluralism, and conservatism / Richard W. Garnett
  • Anti-governmentism in conservative thought: a note on Garnett's conception of religious freedom / Ingrid Creppell
  • Constitutive stories about the common law in modern American conservatism / Ken I. Kersch
  • The role of conservatism in securing and maintaining just moral constitutions: toward a theory of complex normative systems / Gerald Gaus
  • Constitutional conservatism and American conservatism / Johnathan O'Neill
  • Fighting over the conservative banner / Carl T. Bogus
  • Uniting conservatives: comments on Bogus's trifurcated conservatism / Eldon Eisenach
  • Leo Strauss and American conservative thought and politics / Nathan Tarcov
  • What fascism teaches us / Arthur J. Jacobson
  • Segregation, aggression, and executive power: Leo Strauss and 'the boys' / Alan Gilbert.

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