03644nam 22006255 450 991025532140332120200703061211.01-137-59295-810.1057/978-1-137-59295-8(CKB)3710000000777413(EBL)4716836(DE-He213)978-1-137-59295-8(MiAaPQ)EBC4716836(EXLCZ)99371000000077741320160805d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPragmatic Conservatism[electronic resource] Edmund Burke and His American Heirs /by Robert J. Lacey1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (261 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-94903-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 2. Edmund Burke: Pragmatic Conservative -- 3. Walter Lippmann: Unlikely Conservative -- 4. Reinhold Niebuhr: Prophetic Conservative -- 5. Peter Viereck: Reverent Conservative -- 6. Conservatism Agonistes: Leaving the Stag Hunt -- 7. Conclusion.  .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 when necessary. Mindful that truth is never absolute, they eschew ideology and caution against both bold political enterprises and stubborn apologies for the status quo. The book concludes by contrasting this more nuanced brand of conservatism with the radical version that emerged in the wake of the post-war Buckley revolution.United States—Politics and governmentPolitical theoryWorld politicsPolitical philosophyPragmatismUS Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911180Political Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911010Political Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911080Political Philosophyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E37000Pragmatismhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E38000United States—Politics and government.Political theory.World politics.Political philosophy.Pragmatism.US Politics.Political Theory.Political History.Political Philosophy.Pragmatism.320.520973Lacey Robert Jauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut2604BOOK9910255321403321Pragmatic conservatism1764160UNINA