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Political culture --- Multiculturalism --- Behavior modification --- Political correctness --- Cultural pluralism

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Paul Gottfried's critical engagement with political correctness is well known. The essays in Revisions and Dissents focus on a range of topics in European intellectual and political history, social theory, and the history of modern political movements. With subjects as varied as Robert Nisbet, Whig history, the European Union election of 2014, and Donald Trump, the essays are tied together by their strenuous confrontation with historians and journalists whose claims about the past no longer receive critical scrutiny. According to Gottfried, successful writers on historical topics take advantage of political orthodoxy and/or widespread ignorance to present questionable platitudes as self-evident historical judgments. New research ceases to be of importance in determining accepted interpretations. What remains decisive, Gottfried maintains, is whether the favored view fits the political and emotional needs of what he calls "verbalizing elites." In this highly politicized age, Gottfried argues, it is necessary to re-examine these prevalent interpretations of the past. He does so in this engaging volume, which will appeal to general readers interested in political and intellectual history.  

Conservatism. --- Liberalism. --- Right and left (Political science) --- Political science --- Philosophy. --- Political philosophy --- Left (Political science) --- Left and right (Political science) --- Right (Political science) --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Social sciences --- Conservativism --- Neo-conservatism --- New Right --- Sociology

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"This book deals with the continuing appeal of antifascism as a political concept and as a tool for fighting a real or imagined fascist enemy. Antifascism has undergone significant changes in how it has understood and combatted a perceived fascist danger from the 1920s down to the present"--

Fascism --- Anti-fascist movements --- Right and left (Political science) --- History.

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In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many also know that today's "liberals" have far different goals from those of their predecessors, aiming as they do largely to combat prejudice, to provide social services and welfare benefits, and to defend expressive and "lifestyle" freedoms. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze these historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. Throughout the western world, increasingly uprooted populations unthinkingly accept centralized controls in exchange for a variety of entitlements. In their frightening passivity, Gottfried locates the quandary for traditionalist and populist adversaries of the welfare state. How can opponents of administrative elites show the public that those who provide, however ineptly, for their material needs are the enemies of democratic self-rule and of independent decision making in family life? If we do not wake up, Gottfried warns, the political debate may soon be over, despite sporadic and ideologically confused populist rumblings in both Europe and the United States.

Cultural pluralism. --- Democracy. --- Liberalism. --- Populism. --- Public administration. --- Social engineering. --- Welfare state. --- Ingénierie sociale --- Pluralisme (Sciences sociales) --- Pluralisme (Sociale wetenschappen) --- Populisme --- Social engineering --- Sociale engineering --- Engineering, Social --- Political science --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Social sciences --- Social control --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- State, Welfare --- Economic policy --- Public welfare --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Welfare state --- Public administration --- Liberalism --- Democracy