From Basel to Brooklyn: Liberal Cultural Pessimism in Burckhardt, Röpke, and the American Neoconservatives

Alan S. Kahan ()
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Alan S. Kahan: University of Versailles/St. Quentin

A chapter in Wilhelm Röpke (1899–1966), 2018, pp 157-164 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Kahan argues that cultural pessimism has always been a characteristic of some strands of liberal thought and that therefore Wilhelm Röpke’s cultural pessimism does not mean that he was a conservative. Liberal cultural pessimism can be found in both anti-modernist and modernist forms. Jacob Burckhardt and Röpke share an anti-modernist liberal cultural pessimism, whereas the American neoconservative Irving Kristol is an example of a modernist liberal cultural pessimism. Even though many liberals have been optimists, optimism has never been a requirement for liberalism.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68357-7_10

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