Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the PresentJerry Z. Muller Princeton University Press, 1997 M05 4 - 450 pages 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. |
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Contents
Preface | xiii |
Acknowledgments | xvii |
Introduction What is Conservative Social and Political Thought? | 3 |
Chapter 1 Enlightenment Conservatism | 32 |
David Hume Of Justice from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals 1751¹ | 36 |
Introduction to David HumeOf the Origin of Government Of the Original Contract and Of Passive Obedience from Essays Moral Political and Literary | 46 |
Of the Origin of Government 1777 Of the Original Contract 1748 Of Passive Obedience 1748¹ Of the Orgin of Government | 48 |
Introduction to Justus Möser On the Diminished Disgrace of Whores and Their Children in Our Day | 70 |
Chapter 5The Critique of Good Intentions | 233 |
Chapter 6 WAR | 249 |
Chapter 7 Democracy | 261 |
Introduction to Joseph A Schumpeter Political Leadership and Democracy | 275 |
Chapter 8 The Limits of Rationalism | 285 |
Introduction to Michael Oakeshott Rationalism in Politics | 290 |
Introduction to Friedrich Hayek The Errors of Constructivism 1970 and The Mirage of Social Justice 1973 | 313 |
Introduction to Edward Banfield The Unheavenly City Revisited | 335 |
Introduction to Justus Möser No Promotion According to Merit | 74 |
Chapter 2 The Critique of Revolution | 78 |
Introduction to Louis de Bonald On Divorce | 123 |
Introduction to Joseph de Maistre Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions and of Other Human Institutions | 134 |
Introduction to James Madison Federalist No 49 | 146 |
Introduction to Rufus Choate The Position and Functions of the American Bar as an Element of Conservatism in the State | 152 |
Chapter 3 Authority | 167 |
Introduction to James Fitzjames Stephen Liberty Equality Fraternity | 187 |
Chapter 4 Inequality | 210 |
Introduction to Joseph A Schumpeter Aptitude and Social Mobility | 222 |
Chapter 9 The Critique of Social and Cultural Emancipation | 358 |
The Role Meditating Structures in Public Policy | 372 |
Introduction to Hermann LübbeThe Social Consequences of Attempts to Create Equality | 390 |
Chapter 10 Between Social Science and Cultural Criticism | 401 |
Introduction to Philip Rieff Toward a Theory of Culture | 411 |
Recurrent Tension and Dilemmas of Conservative Thought | 421 |
Guide to Further Reading | 427 |
Index | 441 |