This book is designed as a timely analysis of the rise of post-modern conservatism in many Western countries across the globe. It provides a theoretical overview of post-modernism, why post-modern conservatism emerged, what distinguishes it from other variants of conservatism and differing political doctrines, and how post-modern conservatism governs in practice. First developing a unique genealogy of conservative thought, arguing that the historicist and irrationalist strains of conservatism were ripe for mutation into post-modern form under the right social and cultural conditions, then providing a new unique theoretical framework to describe the conditions for the emergence of post-modern conservatism, The Rise of Post-modern Conservatism applies its theoretical framework to a concrete analysis of the politics of the day. Ultimately, it aims to help us understand the emergence and rise of identity oriented alt right movements and their "populist" spokesmen particularly in the United States, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Poland, and now Italy.

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Matthew Allan McManus received his PhD from the Socio-Legal Studies program at York University, Canada in 2017, after acquiring an LL.M in International Human Rights Law from the National University of Ireland. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of TEC de Monterrey, Mexico.

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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 &...