Radical Conservatism and the Future of Politics

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Radical Conservatism and the Future of Politics is written by Goran Dahl and published by SAGE. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0857026178 (ISBN 10) and 9780857026170 (ISBN 13).

Over the last 30 years the post-war centre-ground which recognized the welfare state, the funding of education, protection of the environment and the management of capitalism as the proper business of the state, has fragmented. Emphasis on the freedom of the individual and the proper limitations of state power has changed the climate of everyday life. This book locates the roots of radical conservatism in the writings of Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Heidegger, Junger and Schmitt. It documents the radical conservative worldview and points to limitations in its perspective. Dahl asserts that we should be wary of considering radical conservatism as a singular phenomenon and discusses global divergences in belief and policy.