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1 online resource (261 pages) |
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Introduction: Speaking for the People in Culture Wars-Era America -- 1. The Coming of the Neoconservative Common Man -- 2. James Q. Wilson and the Rehabilitation of Emotions -- 3. Family Values as Moral Intuitions: Neoconservatives and the War over the Family -- 4. Moral Sentiments of the Black Underclass: Race in the Neoconservative Moral Imagination -- 5. Retributive Sentiments and Criminal Justice: James Q. Wilson on Crime and Punishment -- 6. Elite Multiculturalism and the Spontaneous Morality of Everyday People: Francis Fukuyama's Culture Wars -- Epilogue: Conservative Intellectuals and the Boundaries of the People -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"In considering the lodestars of American neoconservative thought-among them Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, James Q. Wilson, and Francis Fukuyama-Antti Lepistö makes a compelling case for the centrality of their conception of "the common man" in accounting for the enduring power and influence of their thought. Lepistö locates the roots of this conception in the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. Subsequently, the neoconservatives weaponized the ideas of Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, and David Hume to denounce postwar liberal elites, educational authorities, and social reformers-ultimately giving rise to a defining force in American politics: the "common sense" of "the common man.""-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Culture conflict -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Ethics -- United States.
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Common sense.
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HISTORY / General.
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Common sense
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Conservatism
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Culture conflict
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Ethics
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United States
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
022677418X |
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9780226774183 |
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