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Perspectives on political science, 2016-10, Vol.45 (4), p.272-280
2016
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Conservatism, Aesthetic and Active: Reflections on Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent
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  • Perspectives on political science, 2016-10, Vol.45 (4), p.272-280
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Philadelphia: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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  • Roger Scruton and Pierre Manent provide us much to admire, as authors and as men, and much to ponder. They can be seen as collaborators in the defense of the nation-state against the empty universalism of "human rights," and, more generally, in exposing the boundless arrogance and blindness of modern rationalism insofar as it denies its inheritance from premodern sources. This defense of the nation-state and critique of secular rationalism are of vital interest to moral and political conservatives, and Scruton, for his part, has explicitly taken on the cause and the label of conservatism. But conservatives face an imposing and, I propose here, critically instructive obstacle in appropriating the teachings of these two contemporary giants. For, as soon as we begin to examine the foundations of their respective projects, Scruton's and Manent's approaches appear to be, not only quite different (and therefore, one might hope, complementary) but in an important sense directly opposed to one another. This opposition appears most directly in their respective estimates of the realm of politics: one would exaggerate little in saying that, for Manent, politics is everything, whereas Scruton wishes to constrict the reach of politics to the minimum. Thus, Scruton embraces the title "conservative" but understands it apolitically, whereas Manent declines to identify himself as conservative but fully embraces a political task essential to conservatism. Conservatives must confront this disconcerting opposition and see what can be learned from it.
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Englisch
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ISSN: 1045-7097
eISSN: 1930-5478
DOI: 10.1080/10457097.2016.1221692
Titel-ID: cdi_informaworld_taylorfrancis_310_1080_10457097_2016_1221692

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