Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Dylan DeJong
Section One: Post-Modern Culture and Neoliberal Society
Preface-The Roots of Post-Modern Conservatism
· The Optimistic End of History
· The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism
· Chapter Breakdown
Chapter One- Post-Modernism as Philosophy and Post-Modernism as Culture
· The End of Modernism
· The End of Grand Narratives: What is Post-Modernism?
· The Emergence of Post-Modern Philosophy
· Post-Modernism and Language
· Understanding Post-Modernism as a Culture
· Post-modernism as the Culture of Neoliberal Societies
Chapter Two- The Emergence of Post-Modern Culture in Neoliberal Society
· The Political Discourse of Neoliberalism
· Neoliberalism as the Governance of Society
· What Characterizes Neoliberal Societies? I: Socio-Political Transformations
· What Characterizes Neoliberal Societies? II: Economic Transformations
· What Characterizes Neoliberal Societies? III: Technological Transformations
· “Everything that is Solid Melts Into the Air”: Post-Modern Culture, Spheres of Life,
· The Aesthetic Representation of Changing Experience of Time, Space, and Identity
· Post-Modern Culture and Changing Relationships to Space
· Post-Modern Culture and Changing Relationship to Time
· Post-Modern Culture and the Destabilization of Identity
· Conclusion: Post-Modern Politics
Section Two: Post-Modern Conservatism in Theory and in Practice
Chapter Three- Who are the Post-Modern Conservatives?
· The Genealogy of Post-Modern Conservatism
· The Early Modern Origins of Post-Modern Conservatism: Edmund Burke
· The Early Modern Origins of Post-Modern Conservatism: Joseph de Maistre
· The Modern Origins of Post-Modern Conservatism: Oakeshott, Lord Devlin, Bork
· Peter Lawler as the Apologist of Post-Modern Conservatism
· The Emergence of Post-Modern Conservatism
· The “Dissolution” of Traditionally Powerful Identities and the Formation of the Post-Modern Pastiche
· The Schmittian Enemies of Post-Modern Conservatism
Chapter Four- Brexit, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism Across the Globe
· The Political Mobilization of Post-Modern Conservatism Across the Globe
· The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism in the United States
· Post-Modern Conservatism in the United Kingdom
· Post-Modern Conservatism in Poland
· The Long March of Fidesz in Hungary
· The Showbiz Conservatism of Italy
· Post-Modern Conservatism as Political Practice
Section Three: Conclusion
Chapter Five- An Egalitarian Agenda for the Future
· Contra-Fukuyama: Post-modern Conservatism and the Re-emergence of History
· The Challenges Facing Post-Modern Conservatism
· Conclusion: What Can be Done?-Modernizing Left Democracy for a Post-modern Epoch
