Original scientific paper

Changes and Conjuctures of Conservatism

Rade Kalanj ; Department of Sociology, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The text deals with conservatism in the context of neoliberal, postmodern and postcommunist cultural conjuncture. Starting from the recent actualisation of this concept, the text analyzes the historical and sociological context in which classic conservatism appears as a reaction to the liberal and democratic concept of progress. The text considers the changes of conservative thought during the second half of the 19th century and especially in the 20th century, particularly concerning conservative revolution in Germany and Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Unlike the classic (''olci') conservatism, and parallel to attempts of its philosophical revival, two versions of conservative thought have been formed in the 20th century, at the end of the Second World War: neoconservatism and the new Right, related to the cycle of neoliberal modernization. Analyzing the connection between neoliberalism and conservatism, the text also examines the conservative character of certain ideological streams in "new democracies''.

Keywords

authority; equality; conservatism; conservative revolution; liberalism; liberal democracy; neoliberalism; socialism; freedom; tradition

Hrčak ID:

154423

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/154423

Publication date:

31.12.1998.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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