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by President Richard Nixon as his favorite read for, The Search for Historical Meaning presents the postwar American conservative movement against a background of ideas with which it has only rarely been identified.
This important bookupdated with a new prefaceexamines the influence of Hegelian concepts on the historical attitudes and cultural judgments of prominent postwar conservatives who, because of their concern with personal freedom as a political and ontological value, denounced Hegel while ascribing their own Hegelian ideas to less offensive sources.
Gottfried argues that the lack of a true historical perspective was a serious defect in the postwar American conservative movement, and it grew worse in the years that followed.
Essential reading for conservative thinkers, political philosophers, and American political historians, The Search for Historical Meaning concludes with an incisive examination of the American conservative movement that has implications for today.
Strauss gives historicism a bad name, Frank Meyer was a Hegelian, and the recognition of our place in a historical past in necessary for political mobilization, left and right, even if the intellectual right gave up historical justification and Burkean conservatism following Strauss.
Intriguing analysis for both the theoretical content and the intellectual history, Been wanting to read this for years but theres no ebook edition, An exploration of the mostly European emigres and excommunists who influenced the postwar conservative movement by an at least indirect familiarity with Hegelian historicist thinking, Gottfried thinks they marshaled such thinking to defend western Christian bourgeois civilization as opposed to Marxist and fascist uses of Hegel but Straussian thinking predominated over time trying to relate to what Gottfried thinks is a contrived view of tradition.
Gottfried himself seems attracted more to the realist than idealist aspects of historicism of how modern ideals of liberty and equality are incarnated in time, Paul Edward Gottfried is the

editor of Chronicles and a former Horace Raffensperger professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, .