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Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95011413 Arguing that the tradition is central to the Australian experience of modernity, Gregory Melleuish traces the impact of cultural liberalism from its emergence around the time of Federation to its demise during the 1960s. Publisher description for Cultural liberalism in Australia : a study in intellectual and cultural history / Gregory Melleuish. Part collective biography, part intellectual and cultural history, the book describes the development of cultural liberalism, founded on rationalism and humanism, by university-educated intellectuals. www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam027/95011413.html

Musings of a Reformed Catholic Because Bush has refused to fight liberalism, he has given liberals-despite the mediocrity of their main political party-an opportunity to regain political control of the country and reign as the unchallenged cultural gate-keepers as well. However, the fact is that the neoconservative foreign policy as presently embodied in Iraq is itself the result of leftism (what the anarchist writer Keith Preston noted as "left-deviationism") perculating into contemporary conservatism through that conservatism being hijacked by neoconservatism (which is right-liberalism, i.e., the progressive liberalism of Wilson, FDR, and Truman). It is for this reason that I am so harsh in my criticism of Bush: because, under the pretense of being conservative, he is wrecking the conservative movement and the Republican party, thus helping the cause of liberalism. reformedcatholicism.blogspot.com   (9780 words)

Books What lies beneath Slovenes are obsessed with the notion that, although a small nation, we are a cultural superpower: we possess a hidden treasury of masterpieces that wait to be acknowledged by the wider world. But this simplified picture is not the whole truth: the ex-communist countries that most ardently support the US "war on terror" are also deeply worried that their cultural identity, their very survival as nations, is threatened by the onslaught of Americanisation - we thus witness the paradox of pro-Bushist anti-Americanism. The Slovene attitude of cultural superiority finds its counterpart in the patronising cliché according to which the east European post-communist countries are poor cousins who will be admitted back into the family only if they behave properly. books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4913636-110738,00.html   (9780 words)

Australia-biblio Cultural Liberalism in Australia: A Study in Intellectual and Cultural History. To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia’s Constitution. Australia, Britain and Migration: A Study of Desperate Hopes, 1915-1940. www.univ-nancy2.fr /CEAA/CRESAB/Australia-biblio.html   (9780 words)

Bourgeois liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bourgeois liberalism was a term of disparagement used by People's Republic of China rulers of the late 1980s and early 1990s to refer to a perceived political and cultural threat -- in political terms as parliamentary democracy and in cultural terms as western popular culture. A number of campaigns were launched against bourgeois liberalism around the time of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and immediately afterwards. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bourgeois_liberalism   (108 words)

James Seaton: Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism, University of Michigan Press Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism is an impassioned response to the debates on culture and the literary canon over the last decade. James Seaton argues that the attempts of E. Hirsch and Allan Bloom to unite cultural conservatism with political liberalism have been inadequate. He believes that their fullest integration is found not in a doctrine, but in a tradition, the tradition of cultural critics from Mencken through Ellison. www.press.umich.edu /titleDetailDesc.do?id=14584   (108 words)

MICHAEL J. THOMPSON: BEYOND THE VOTE: THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM -- Logos Fall 2004 Indeed, social liberalism was able to merge the concerns of economic inequality as well as the assimilation of ethnic minorities and cultural difference. As a major shift in the understanding of American political, social, economic and cultural life social liberalism was a vigorous assault on the destructive laissez faire ideology and politics of its time. This transformation of liberalism has led to the timidity of the Democratic Party, the rightward drift of organizations such as the DLC and the inability of Democratic candidates at all levels to connect the interests of the majority of Americans with their own agenda. www.logosjournal.com /thompson_election.htm   (2514 words)

MICHAEL J. THOMPSON: BEYOND THE VOTE: THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM -- Logos Fall 2004 As a major shift in the understanding of American political, social, economic and cultural life social liberalism was a vigorous assault on the destructive laissez faire ideology and politics of its time. Indeed, social liberalism was able to merge the concerns of economic inequality as well as the assimilation of ethnic minorities and cultural difference. This transformation of liberalism has led to the timidity of the Democratic Party, the rightward drift of organizations such as the DLC and the inability of Democratic candidates at all levels to connect the interests of the majority of Americans with their own agenda. www.logosjournal.com /thompson_election.htm   (2514 words)

Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95039785 Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism is an impassioned response to the debates on culture and the literary canon over the last decade. Publisher description for Cultural conservatism, political liberalism : from criticism to cultural studies / James Seaton. He believes that their fullest integration is found not in a doctrine, but in a tradition, the tradition of cultural critics from Mencken through Ellison. www.loc.gov /catdir/description/umich051/95039785.html   (2514 words)

Vilnius in the 16th century Lithuania can take pride in the fact that for a certain time in the latter half of the 16th century it was, from the political and religious point of view, the centre of Christian European liberalism and progressive religious thought. The Reformation awakened Lithuania from cultural stagnation, inspired its social thought, literature and written language, stimulated its Catholic adversaries toward cultural activities, and in general, brought Lithuania closer to Europe. In the 16th century Lithuania was a multi-ethnic state with its capital Vilnius, a big city of 20,000 inhabitants, dominated by the steeples of numerous Catholic churches interspersed with the onion domes of Orthodox churches, the minarets of mosques and the façades of synagogues. www.unesco.org /webworld/europe/lithuania/vilnius.htm   (2514 words)

Commentary Magazine - Israel: A Lamentation From the Future ...To them it meant that Israel, their country, the country that they and theirs had founded and developed and had a natural right to rule and run, was being stolen from them by a coalition between the forces of political darkness and the forces of cultural barbarism... ...ITHIN Israel, the defeat of the Labor WV Party and the sudden transformation in 1977 of Begin from leader of the opposition to Prime Minister inaugurated a new period not merely in the political history of the country but also in its cultural and spiritual development... ...This was the talent to defend Israel in the realm of ideas and ideologies against the attacks on its legitimacy as a state and on its correlative right to do the things that all states are automatically granted the right to do in the exercise of their sovereignty or in the ensuring of their security... www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V87I3P17-1.htm   (5774 words)

Democracy and Culture: A Case for Thailand In this paper I present a series of arguments against the charge, common in most Asian countries, that Western liberal democracy is not suitable for countries of the East since it is perceived to be an integral element of a cultural tradition alien to the traditions of Eastern cultures. In a liberal culture, the political system does not enter the realm of practices constitutive of cultural identities. Therefore, the task for democrats in Thailand is to foster this living tradition of tolerance and to try to create a process whereby differences among all sectors could be fairly and equitably adjudicated in such institutional settings as public hearings and other measures. pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th /~hsoraj/web/Dem.html   (5774 words)

The National Citizens' Initiative - Calendar - September 2002 NCI convenes working seminar on “ The Role of Religion and the Church in Shaping and Preserving Armenian Identity,” the third in a series of preparatory events for an NCI international conference to be held in November 2002 on “Armenia-Diaspora: Cultural Commonalities and Distinctions.” NCI councilmember Hranush Kharatian presents her research product on “Emigration from Armenia: Social-psychological and Cultural Causes and Current and Expected Consequences.” Noyan Tapan analyst David Petrosian assesses Hovannisian “National Charter” as Armenia’s new program of “national liberalism.” www.nci.am /calendar/0209   (5774 words)

V.Koutalis: Balkan internationalism Still, the social struggles of the subordinate classes of one nation-state could neither attain their historical objectives, as far as this nation-state continued to oppress another population, which defined itself as a cultural community in the road to be formed as a political society or at least to achieve national/cultural autonomy [ix]. It is interesting to note that some years later, in 1884, it was founded in Athens the “Oriental Federation”, an initiative of Greek intellectuals and some Balkan politicians that was one of the last samples of bourgeois federalism, endorsing a political mixture of fainted democratic politics and moderate nationalism [x]. In Belgrade on January 1910 was held the first congress of the social-democratic parties of SE Europe with delegations from Serbia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Turkey, Montenegro, Macedonia and the Slavic areas of Austria-Hungary. www.okde.org /keimena/vag_kout_balkan_inter_0603_en.htm   (5774 words)

Turnabout Culture, politics, tradition and Catholicism Whatever enthusiasm managerial liberals have had for the welfare state, they never suppressed advocacy of economic liberalism as ‘greed’ in the way they now suppress advocacy of ethnic cohesiveness or traditional sex roles and sexual standards as ‘hate.’ Thus, it is doubtful that the regime will be able to make an accommodation with cultural traditionalism. The English Liberal Party made the transition from the old liberalism to the new between 1910 and 1914, the basic institutions of managerial liberalism were in place in Scandinavia by the 1920s, and after 1945 they became universal in the West. He emphasizes the novelty of the form of political society that has emerged, the seriousness of the opposing tendencies within liberalism that the new order had to overcome, and the difficulty opposition now has finding any footing in a society that at all points has become thoroughly dependent on public administration. jkalb.org /?q=title/the+dilemma+of+managerial+liberalism   (3131 words)

On Wu Mi's Conservatism Karl Mannheim maintained that conservatism as an "ism" only emerged in the West in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and was an inseparable component of the triad conservatism/liberalism/radicalism. Another particular aspect of modern Chinese conservatism is that it is largely cultural conservatism and not basically a sociopolitical conservatism committed to the prevailing sociopolitical status quo. She cites a few cultural conservatives like Zhang Binglin (1868-1936) and Xiong Shili (1885-1968) to demonstrate that all accepted the necessity of political change and therefore felt constrained to consider cultural-moral questions apart from the political process. www.nhinet.org /ong.htm   (3131 words)

John Paul II’s Use of the Term Neo-Liberalism in Ecclesia in America Liberalism is a political philosophy that has its intellectual roots in Renaissance humanism; but it gained considerable momentum as a cultural movement after the Reformation 5. Although the specific political and economic theories that were formulated to defend these rights often varied from one thinker to the next, these political philosophers of the Enlightenment formed a school of thought known as liberalism 8. Bastiat, The Law, 10-22; and Neill, The Rise and Decline of Liberalism, 62-65. www.acton.org /research/pubs/papers/neoliberalism.html   (5601 words)

Dave's Mormon Inquiry: The Churching of America Mormon culture needs its own varieties of reform, even if they look nothing like Protestantism or secular liberalism, because without them, the self-critical function is assigned to the hierarchy — an arrangement that history has shown to be rather unfruitful. Mormon congregational, stake, and general authority leadership ranks are drawn overwhelmingly from the business class; the Church functions partly as a for-profit corporation; the political structures in the state maintain a rather thinly disguised religious partisanship. The Mormon Church is a high-cost, high-benefit denomination, a "sect" in the non-pejorative sense used by the authors. mormoninquiry.typepad.com /mormon_inquiry/2004/10/the_churching_o.html   (5601 words)

Bourgeois liberalism --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia Provides access to books, memoirs, speeches, letters, and cultural and political documents on utilitarianism, laissez-faire economics, radical politics, welfare liberalism, and political feminism. Liberalism has flourished in Western society since the 18th century, but its history may be divided into two markedly distinct periods—the classical and the... Based on the Latin word liber, meaning “free,” liberalism is a political point of view opposed to any system that threatens the freedom of the individual and prevents him from realizing his full human potential. www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310330   (729 words)

Conservative Revolution? No -- Just Dazzlingly Effective PR Still, it means that the popular culture, at least, is unlikely ever to become conservative in any meaningful way unless liberalism is so widely embraced some day that conservatism becomes the radical, subversive alternative to it. Blogger Andrew Sullivan, for example, calls the new cultural trend "South Park Republicanism" because "South Park" has taken its whacks at political correctness and other liberal shibboleths. Conservatives could point only to the success of the now-canceled series "Touched by an Angel" as evidence of a largely untapped right-wing audience. www.commondreams.org /views03/1124-15.htm   (729 words)

Definition of The Sixties Margaret Thatcher respectively, their conservative agenda dealt mainly with economic issues, and few of the demands of cultural conservatives were met, despite the important role they played in bringing these leaders (particularly Reagan) to power. Cultural Revolution had some superficial resemblances to the student protests in the West. Most conservative Republicans know that the Sixties students and their children are now a powerful middle-class constituency whose residual social liberalism cannot be infringed on too far without provoking a political response. www.wordiq.com /definition/The_Sixties   (729 words)

American Liberalism Project Blog: June 2005 Santorum professes the opinion that the pederasty committed by members of the Catholic clergy of Boston was due the cultural liberalism plaguing our Catholic seminaries and public universities. American politics is a deadly serious enterprise, though, despite its appearance of being a hodge-podge of incoherent selfishness, ego, and jingoism. Americans may be astonished to learn that $20 million in taxpayers' money was spent on a study whose unacknowledged purpose is to increase the use of psychotropic drugs. americanliberalism.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_americanliberalism_archive.html   (10750 words)

Book Review - Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism He emphasized that an anti-economic liberalism is occurring against the background of no real ideological commitment to or even belief in the principles of economic liberty and a truly free market. Furthermore, a new threat to the success of free-market globalization is the West’s campaign of “ethical imperialism,” in which the political and cultural social engineers in the West wish to impose their own standards of conduct and institutional reform on the developing countries of the world. And, as we enter the new millennium, it is liberalism — more than any other doctrine — that symbolizes the extraordinary advances that liberty has made in the long course of human civilization. www.fff.org /freedom/0301h.asp   (1150 words)

The Self-Loathing Generation The cultural liberalism of this century has ushered in an era of group rights, group identity, and group feelings. Political correctness, cultural relativism, feminism, the smear of religion, and absolute equality are all norms of the modern liberal society. There may be multiple causes for the self-loathing this generation expresses, but the most obvious would be cultural leftism and government nannying. www.lewrockwell.com /decoster/decoster46.html   (1394 words)

polylog / literature / reviews / Dilek Çinar: Cultural Diversity and Dialogue. On Bhikhu Parekh: Rethinking Multiculturalism. Cultural Diversity and Political Theory Cultural determinism does not hinge on a wrong definition of culture that may simply be corrected. Parekh's sketch of a theory of multicultural society claims to avoid the conceptual pitfalls of historical and contemporary forms of cultural determinism. His critique is aimed, first, at various shapes of moral monisms (situated in antiquity, Christianity, and classical liberalism) which are all based on the belief in the existence of a single form of "good life". lit.polylog.org /3/rcd-en.htm   (1316 words)

The Culture of Classical Liberalism This essay will make two simple points: that many classical liberals do indeed acknowledge the importance of "culture," though they present no unified front on the matter; and that this cultural awareness is an important part of their respective overall classical-liberal philosophies. Quite reasonably, many classical liberals retort that political and economic theory naturally focuses on politics and economics, and that they are more interested in defining the political sphere rather than accounting for what falls outside it. In fact, McCloskey's article (which anticipates her 1996 book on the same subject) is an excellent example of one classical liberal economist's appreciation for culture, touching intelligently on classical and modern philosophy, the language of virtue, medieval history, and Freudian psychology. www.libertyhaven.com /thinkers/friedrichvonhayek/culture.shtml   (1806 words)

History of Brazil The Andes and the mountain ranges of northern Brazil created a rather sharp cultural boundary between the settled agrarian civilizations of the West coast of South America (which gave rise to urbanized city-states and the immense Inca Empire) and the semi-nomadic tribes of the East, who never developed written records or permanent monumental architecture. From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Brazil was a colony of Portugal, exploited mainly for brazilwood at first, and later for sugarcane agriculture. Brazil's most severe problem is arguably its highly unequal distribution of wealth and income, one of the most extreme in the world. pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/h/hi/history_of_brazil.html   (1806 words)

Bakhtin Circle [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] When considered in its historical context, the Dostoevskii study can be seen as a sort of rearguard defence of liberality in the cultural arena against the encroachment of political control. Language enmeshed within everyday practical activity is extracted, or liberated, from its connection with the 'open event of being' by the author who then reflects upon it, from his or her own unique vantage point, manifesting its total intonational meaning. In the more liberal atmosphere of the so-called 'thaw' following Khruschev's accession, Bakhtin's work on Dostoevskii came to the attention of a group of younger scholars led by Vadim Kozhinov who, upon finding out that he was still alive, contacted Bakhtin and tried to convince him to republish the 1929 Dostoevskii book. www.iep.utm.edu /b/bakhtin.htm   (8222 words)

Life of the parties / Cultural conservatism key to recent Republican successes, historian says Gould's history would be more meaningful had he spent more time on the cultural and demographic trends that have created a heartland of Republican successes that now runs all the way from Sacramento to Richmond and Atlanta. The most important fact about the 2000 presidential election is not the Florida fiasco, but the fact that Al Gore could not carry once-loyal Democratic states such as West Virginia, Kentucky, his home state of Tennessee and Arkansas, largely over cultural issues. The nation's political dividing line now runs through California -- the coastal communities being the bulwark of Democratic liberalism, while cities from Sacramento eastward vote Republican. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/23/RV210978.DTL   (8222 words)

American Liberalism's Achilles Heel A year ago, Americans were ashamed that the White House had not adequately planned to secure the Iraqi museums, the libraries, and the cultural resources of the "cradle of civilization." Under American rule, looters ruled in Iraq. Actually, the Democrats' timidity reveals a long-standing failure that haunts American liberalism. The cumulative effect is the same: most decent Americans are at least shaken and embarrassed by the debacle in Iraq. www.commondreams.org /views04/0601-02.htm   (832 words)

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