Wilhelm Röpke and American Conservatism

Tim Petersen ()
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A chapter in Wilhelm Röpke (1899–1966), 2018, pp 175-186 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Petersen explores Wilhelm Röpke’s complex relationship to conservatism. William S. Schlamm, an Austrian-born ex-communist turning into an outspoken anti-communist, developed a special relationship to Röpke. Petersen then distinguishes different currents within US conservatism’s postwar awakening, focusing on “fusionism,” as formulated especially by Frank Meyer, and on “traditionalism,” as formulated especially by Russell Kirk. Although Petersen describes Röpke’s friend Schlamm as an Austrian-born “fusionist,” he nevertheless classifies Röpke to belong rather to “traditionalism,” as understood in the USA of the time. Petersen justifies this claim by a comparative analysis of the intensity in the relationships Röpke-Meyer and Röpke-Kirk, the latter being clearly dominant. Röpke’s mergers of liberal and conservative ingredients do not make him a “fusionist” in the historical sense of the term, Petersen concludes.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68357-7_12

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