Chilton Williamson (2) (1947–)
Autore di The conservative bookshelf : essential works that impact today's conservative thinkers
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Chilton Williamson, Jr., is a married to the former Maureen McCaffrey and lives in Laramie, Wyoming
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Williamson, Chilton
- Altri nomi
- Williamson, Chilton, Jr.
- Data di nascita
- 1947-04
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Attività lavorative
- editor
- Relazioni
- Williamson, Chilton (father)
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- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 106
- Popolarità
- #181,887
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 20
The primary distinction within the conservative tradition, according to Williamson, is the difference between a conservatism founded on eternal principles, and the conservatism that appeals to historical context and the status quo, prudence, and pragmatism. The latter he dismisses as the ‘pseudo-conservativism’ of the Establishment, the Republican Party, and the neo-cons (ascendant under Bush II, when the present collection was published [2004]). For Williamson, “conservatism, rightly understood, is man’s willingness to discern for himself, and to accept from God, a fundamental, practical, just, human, and unchangeable plan for man—and to stick with it" (emphasis in the original). In the parlance of 21st c. American political gobbledygook, then, Williamson is a self-styled paleoconservative, a member of the New Old Right. (The original Old Right either began with U.S. independence and ended with the U.S. Constitution [Williamson’s view], or sprang from the laissez-faire/isolationist opposition to WWI and the New Deal [Murray Rothbard’s version]).
Among the 52 books treated here are the usual suspects (Burke, Hayek, Kirk, et.al.), some paleo-con tracts avant la lettre, and some others that Williamson must pound with vigor to fit into his sharp-edged square holes. Several selections Williamson acknowledges as tangential to his primary concerns, but he insists on their value for what he would have liked them to mean. The Conservative Bookshelf, then, is less a guide to key conservative texts than it is an illustration of how a committed, backwards-facing paleoconservative reads.… (altro)