The Nature of the Right: American and European Politics and Political Thought since 1789. Edited by Roger Eatwell and Noel O'Sullivan. Boston: Twayne, 1990. 203p. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. - Reactions to the Right. Edited by Barry Hindess. New York: Routledge, 1990. 193p. $54.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. - The Political Economy of the New Right. By Grahame Thompson. Boston: Twayne, 1990. 216p. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. - The Political Theory of Conservative Economists. By Conrad P. Waligorski. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990. 260p. $29.95.

1992 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 507-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Riley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
New Right ◽  
The Political ◽  
European Politics ◽  
The Right

DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN, THE 1976 NEW YORK SENATE RACE, AND THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE AMERICAN LIBERALISM

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 1111-1133 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATRICK ANDELIC
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
New Right ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
American Liberalism ◽  
The Right

ABSTRACTThe 1970s was a decade of acute existential crisis for the Democratic party, as ‘New Politics’ insurgents challenged the old guard for control of both the party apparatus and the right to define who a true ‘liberal’ was. Those Democrats who opposed New Politics reformism often found themselves dubbed ‘neoconservatives’. The fact that so many ‘neoconservatives’ eventually made their home in the Grand Old Party (GOP) has led historians to view them as a Republican bloc in embryo. The apostasy of the neoconservatives fits neatly into the political historiography of the 1970s, which is dominated by the rise of the New Right and its takeover of the Republican party. Yet this narrative, though seductive, overlooks the essentially protean character of politics in that decade. This article uses the 1976 Senate campaign mounted by Daniel Patrick Moynihan – the dandyish Harvard academic, official in four presidential administrations, and twice US ambassador – to demonstrate that many ‘neoconservatives’ were advancing a recognizably liberal agenda and seeking to define a new ‘vital center’ against the twin poles of the New Politics and the New Right. A microcosm of a wider struggle to define liberalism, Moynihan's candidacy complicates our understanding of the 1970s as an era of rightward drift.

scholarly journals Criticism of “fascist nostalgia” in the political thought of the New Right

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
New Right ◽  
The Political ◽  
Direct Impact ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Student Protests ◽  
Political Exclusion ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Right

CRITICISM OF “FASCIST NOSTALGIA” IN THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF THE NEW RIGHTThe article analyses the way in which the Italian New Right perceived fascist traditions as cultivated by the Italian Social Movement Movimento Sociale Italiano. The New Right that was shaped in the period of student protests and marches in the 1960s and 1970s among the youth environment of the MSI strived for the ideological renewal of this party, in particular seeking to discard the so-called “Fascist Nostalgia” that had been dooming it to political exclusion. The party principally rejected Julius Evola’s integral traditionalism, which had been a point of reference for neo-fascist circles, and castigated the absence of contemporary cultural and ideological patterns of the Italian far right. Under the infl uence of the French idea of “Nouvelle Droit”, the Italian New Right was meant to be a metapolitical programme that assumed expanding of the traditional electorate with a simultaneous and direct impact on the civil society through taking up contemporary social and cultural topics, as well as fi ghting traditional dichotomy of the right and the left.

Entangling Plato: A Guide through the Political Theory Archive

2021 ◽  
pp. 009059172199807
Author(s):  
Liam Klein ◽  
Daniel Schillinger
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Athenian Democracy

Political theorists have increasingly sought to place Plato in active dialogue with democracy ancient and modern by examining what S. Sara Monoson calls “Plato’s democratic entanglements.” More precisely, Monoson, J. Peter Euben, Arlene Saxonhouse, Christina Tarnopolsky, and Jill Frank approach Plato as both an immanent critic of the Athenian democracy and a searching theorist of self-governance. In this guide through the Political Theory archive, we explore “entanglement approaches” to the study of Plato, outlining their contribution to our understanding of Plato’s political thought and to the discipline of political theory.

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