The rise of common-sense conservatism : the American right and the reinvention of the Scottish enlightenment

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The rise of common-sense conservatism : the American right and the reinvention of the Scottish enlightenment

Antti Lepistö

University of Chicago Press, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-255) and index

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In the years following the election of Donald Trump-a victory that hinged on the votes of white Midwesterners who were both geographically and culturally distant from the media's coastal concentrations-there has been a flurry of investigation into the politics of the so-called "common man." The notion that the salt-of-the-earth purity implied by this appellation is best understood by conservative politicians is no recent development, though. As Antti Lepistoe shows in his timely and erudite book, the intellectual wellsprings of conservative "common sense" discourse are both older and more transnational than has been thought. In considering the luminaries of American neoconservative thought-among them Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, James Q. Wilson, and Francis Fukuyama-Lepistoe argues that the centrality of their conception of the common man accounts for the enduring power and influence of their thought. Intriguingly, Lepistoe locates the roots of this conception in the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment, revealing how leading neoconservatives weaponized the ideas of Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, and David Hume to denounce postwar liberal elites, educational authorities, and social reformers. Their reconfiguration of Scottish Enlightenment ideas ultimately gave rise to a defining force in modern conservative politics: the common sense of the common man. Whether twenty-first-century politicians who invoke the grievances of "the people" are conscious of this unusual lineage or not, Lepistoe explains both the persistence of the trope and the complicity of some conservative thinkers with the Trump regime.

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Introduction: Speaking for the People in Culture Wars-Era America The Ordinary American as a Neoconservative Concept and Moral Authority Neoconservatives and Populist Persuasion The Neoconservative Culture Wars Chapter 1. The Coming of the Neoconservative Common Man The Rise of Neoconservatism and the Idea of Democratic Decadence The Economic Crisis of the 1970s and the Neoconservative Discovery of Adam Smith The Morality of Ordinary People in Scottish Philosophy Irving Kristol on Shared Moral Sentiments and the Bourgeois Way of Life The Sentimentalist Enlightenment: A Neoconservative Interpretation Speaking for Average White Americans: Neoconservatives and the Republican Party Chapter 2. James Q. Wilson and the Rehabilitation of Emotions Emotions as a Way of Knowing How Ordinary People Think The Man within the Average Joe's Breast Chapter 3. Family Values as Moral Intuitions: Neoconservatives and the War over the Family The Emergence of Family Values as a Neoconservative Theme The New Era of Sentiment in American Politics: Irving Kristol's Family Wars The Moral Sense as a Policy Compass: James Q. Wilson on Abortion and Gay Marriage A Neoconservative Philosophy of Moral Education The Battle over Nonjudgmentalism and the New Definitions of Deviancy Chapter 4. Moral Sentiments of the Black Underclass: Race in the Neoconservative Moral Imagination The Discovery of the Underclass: Urban Decay as a Question of Character The Wise and Virtuous Everyman and Other Americans in James Q. Wilson's The Moral Sense A Poor Man's Moral Sense and the Ethic of Self-Help Chapter 5. Retributive Sentiments and Criminal Justice: James Q. Wilson on Crime and Punishment The Mid-1990s Tough-on-Crime Frenzy and Wilson's Penal Populism Moral Sentiments and Criminal Justice Neoconservative Moral Sentimentalism, Color Blindness, and Mass Incarceration Chapter 6. Elite Multiculturalism and the Spontaneous Morality of Everyday People: Francis Fukuyama's Culture Wars Straussian Cultural Pessimists and the Failures of Liberalism The Liberal Democratic Citizen and the Lost Thymos Losing the Language of Straussian Pessimism: Fukuyama's Moral Sense Idea Fukuyama's Culture Wars: Elite Multiculturalism versus Popular Moral Sentiments The Moral Sense and Spontaneous Order: Neoconservative Moralism Meets the Neoliberal Order Epilogue: Neoconservative Culture Warriors and the Boundaries of the People Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Unpublished Primary Sources Published Primary Sources Secondary Literature Index

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