the politics and culture of a reactionary idealism Drolet, Jean-François creator text nyu 2013 monographic eng

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x, 306 pages ; 22 cm. "American Neoconservatism moves beyond recent debates over the intricacies of the Bush administration's foreign policy to offer a deeper look at the philosophical premises of this 'new' conservatism in light of the historical events and changing social compacts that have created a demand for it over the past decades. It surveys neoconservative discourses on democracy, the liberal state, capitalism, national security, international law and global liberal governance, and draws attention to the systematic links between the domestic and international dimensions of neoconservative political sociology. Taking issue with neoconservatism's self-image, Drolet argues and demonstrates that American neoconservatism is not the centrist 'liberal' conservatism that it pretends to be--and that many analysts have diagnosed in recent years. To the extent that neoconservatism is committed to the Enlightenment discourse of liberalism, these commitments are firmly subordinated to an authoritarian form of cultural and philosophical conservatism, which is in fact ferociously predatory on liberal values and practices. Neoconservatism is not a conservative variant of liberalism but a deeply atavistic reaction to liberal modernity. It owes a lot more to the authoritarian intellectual milieu of interwar Europe than to the liberal tradition that its protagonists allegedly want to reform and protect against its enemies"-- Introduction 1. A New Conservatism 2. Leo Strauss, Liberalism and the 'Crisis of Our Times' 3. Capitalism, Culture Wars and the Neoconservative State 4. The Democratic Mirage of Neoconservative Internationalism 5. The Neoconservative Critique of Global Liberal Governance 6. A Liberalism Betrayed? Jean-François Drolet. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Conservatism United States Conservadurismo Estados Unidos Historia United States Politics and government 1945-1989 United States Politics and government 1989- Estados Unidos Política y gobierno 1945-1989 Estados Unidos Política y gobierno 1989- JC 573.2 D785a 2013 320.520973 9780199333455 (pbk.) 0199333459 (pbk.) 2013017013 DLC 130719 20241113114615.0 17818126 eng