Richard Hooker and English Conservatism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3211758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheldon S Wolin (Oberlin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1953 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-47 |
| Publication date | 1953-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Western Political Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-4078 • E-ISSN: 2325-8675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591295300600102 |
| OpenAlex | W1979997770 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
] ] TAUGHT IS CONSTANT, naught abiding; all things whirl in ceaseless change. These words of Heraclitus might well be taken by some future student as a suitable epitaph for political thought of first half of twentieth century. As so often happens, thought has but reflected flux and uncertainty of events. Intellectual insecurity, in turn, has made contemporary man receptive to each new historical synthesis and eager to embrace every additional diagnosis of the crisis of our times. But in turning from apocalyptic to less dramatic, there can be seen among more obvious tendencies in political thought of English-speaking world a renewed interest in conservatism.1 It is natural, in this connection, to restrict our attention to England where conservative thought has perhaps reached its maturest expression. Here one is soon struck by continuity of thought between contemporary conservatives and their predecessors of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Redivivus would not be an inappropriate subtitle for Quintin Hogg's Case for Conservatism. At same time, it would be idle to deny that conservatism has altered in certain important respects. When Mr. L. S. Amery warns that fealty owed Trades Union Congress by Labour party holds grave constitutional implications, and when Lord Hailsham devotes detailed attention to nationalized industries, it is obvious that modern English conservative finds himself in a very different world from that of Burke, and one wherein Burke can provide only limited inspiration. Nevertheless, that modern conservative should construct broad framework of his argument from inherited materials would seem to indicate that those older ideas possessed a central core of elastic persistence which is necessary precondition for survival of ideas in any viable form. To put it somewhat differently, relevant point is not that time and circumstance impose a relativism on political ideas, but that dead doctrines do not respond in any form. The strength of conservative political thought in England naturally raises question of intellectual origins. In this connection name of
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1954 - 2015 (62) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |