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Lacey, Robert J. Pragmatic and His American Heirs

An in-depth examination of Edmund Burke as the father of what the author calls pragmatic conservatism A carefully articulated and well-written study of a kind of conservatism that has been neglected and underappreciated since the mid-twentieth century Includes insightful comparisons of Burkean conservative thought to current more known styles of conservatism This book is a study of pragmatic conservatism, an underappreciated 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 Palgrave Macmillan Niebuhr, and Peter Viereck—carried on the Burkean tradition and adapted it to American 1st ed. 2016, XI, 255 p. . Pragmatic conservatives posit that people, sinful by nature, require guidance from 1st edition 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 and caution against both bold political enterprises and stubborn apologies for the status quo. The book concludes by Printed book contrasting this more nuanced brand of conservatism with the radical version that emerged in Hardcover the wake of the post-war Buckley revolution. Printed book Hardcover Order online at springer.com/booksellers ISBN 978-1-349-94903-8 Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH £ 99,99 | CHF 130,00 | 109,99 € | Customer Service 120,99 € (A) | 117,69 € (D) Tiergartenstrasse 15-17 69121 Heidelberg Available Germany Discount group T: +49 (0)6221 345-4301 Palgrave Monograph (P6) [email protected] Product category Monograph Other renditions Softcover ISBN 978-1-349-99766-4 Softcover ISBN 978-1-349-95824-5

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