The Twentieth-Century Enlightenment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3382347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cushing Strout (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 321-339 |
| Publication date | 1955-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1951806 |
| OpenAlex | W2330430271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
It is no longer the rule among American intellectuals that to describe oneself as a conservative is to confess to intellectual bankruptcy. The new conservatives, on the contrary, make much of their sophistication in matters of philosophy and history, compared with the naiveté of the liberals. That such a reversal of roles has been possible says much about what has passed for liberalism in modern America, for if the liberals had been historically realistic, profoundly humanistic, and uncompromisingly individualistic, the present case for conservatism would lose much of its force. One is tempted to say, if only there had been more liberalism among the liberals, there would be less need for conservatism. To understand this curious situation it is essential to realize that it has been not the liberal but the progressive mentality that has held sway
Bankruptcy · Classical liberalism · Conservatism · Enlightenment · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanism · Individualism · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sophistication · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
| Citation span | 1956 - 2019 (64) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |