Suchergebnisse

Interview with U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick concerning her domestic policy views.

La notion de conservatisme, courante dans le discours politique, est-elle applicable à l'art ? Les catégories politiques ont envahi ce domaine depuis le xix e siècle. Pourtant, le terme « conservatisme » n'y a pas prospéré. D'une part, l'art a pour principe la nouveauté, ce qui rend problématique un discours explicitement conservateur. D'autre part le conservatisme en art n'exige subjectivement que si l'idéologie prescrit un devoir d'avant-gardisme. Ce qui n'obéit pas à cet impératif est alors exclu de l'histoire. S'il existe bien un art objectivement conservateur, il est difficile de le revendiquer. La dissymétrie observable entre discours politique et discours esthétique devient ainsi compréhensible.

Contemporary British Conservatism brings together a set of specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities to provide a broad-ranging assessment of Conservative politics, policy and ideology today. A central concern throughout is to assess the impact of Thatcherism on the party and the extent to which there has been a return to more traditional Conservatism under John Major

Does conservative political thought have a place in America today? The answer to this question depends upon the general nature of conservatism as an ideology: its distinguishing characteristics, its substance, and the conditions under which it arises. By ideology I mean a system of ideas concerned with the distribution of political and social values and acquiesced in by a significant social group. Interpretations of the role and relevance of conservative thought on the contemporary scene vary greatly. Underlying the debate, however, are three broad and conflicting conceptions of the nature of conservatism as an ideology. This essay deals with the relative merits of these concepts.

Contemporary British Conservatism brings together a set of specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities to provide a broad-ranging assessment of Conservative politics, policy and ideology today. A central concern throughout is to assess the impact of Thatcherism on the party and the extent to which there has been a return to more traditional Conservatism under John Major

The Japanese Supreme Court has been described as "the most conservative constitutional court in the world". And, though lower courts can sometimes be more active, the Japanese judiciary as a whole tends also to be referred to as conservative. However, recent developments challenge this view. In particular, Japanese courts have begun to issue rulings in favour of the rights of sexual and gender minorities on issues like same-sex marriage and gender recognition. Do these decisions suggest that the conservatism of the Japanese judiciary has been overstated – or are they signs of change?

This article identifies the difficulty in defining conservatism and then goes on to illustrate the contradiction inherent in conservative thought.* The central problem addressed by the article is the absence of conservative thinking in modern India. Contrary to the practice of labelling certain strands of thinking as conservative, Indian political thought of past two centuries hardly has any serious conservative tradition. Looking at the ideas of Malaviya, Gandhi and Hindu nationalists, this article shows that while some of their positions did come close to conservative thinking, they did not systematically pursue conservative thinking. A key reason for this is the colonial rupture that negative possibility of serious engagement with past.

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT SWISS HISTORIAN JACOB BURCKHARDT DID INDEED THINK AND WRITE ABOUT POLITICS. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JACOB BURCKHARDT THE POLITICALLY ASTUTE CULTURAL HISTORIAN AND A BURCKHARDIAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IS EXPLORED IN THIS ARTICLE. LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVES SEEK TO SAFEGUARD INDIVIDUALITY AND FREEDOM WITHOUT FORSAKING TRADITION AND WITHOUT DISREGARDING THE ACCUMULATED WISDOM OF PAST GENERATIONS AND CIVILIZATIONS. THE ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THIS PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION--THE LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVE ONE--BEST DESCRIBES JACOB BURCKHARDT'S POLITICAL THINKING.

The notion that aging beyond adolescence and young adulthood leads to conservatism is part of the conventional wisdom, and there are theoretical reasons to believe that certain dimensions of biological, social and psychological aging contribute to some kinds of conser vatism. For instance, with the assumption of family respon sibilities, a diffuse liberalism-humanitarianism is likely to be overshadowed by concern for specific others. Or, aging persons may become more conservative in the sense that their attitudes and values become more resistant to change, because each subsequent experience is a smaller proportion of the total background of experiences. Empirical evidence on the topic is not definitive; moreover, in view of intransigent methodological problems which plague the study of aging effects, the evidence may never be definitive. However, cohort analysis of United States survey sample data reveals that in recent years persons aging beyond young adulthood and beyond middle age have tended to become more liberal in many respects, in conformity with general societal trends. However, these people have tended to become more conservative in a relative sense since their liberalization has not kept pace with changes in the total adult population. Although the evidence suggests that attitudes probably become somewhat less susceptible to change as people grow older, there is scant evidence for any other contribution of aging to conservatism.