Conservative Critique of Liberalism

Edited by Martin Beckstein, Interim Professor of Comparative Politics and Political Economy, Institute of Political Science, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany and David McGrogan, Associate Professor of Law, Northumbria Law School, University of Northumbria, UK

• ContentsPreface viiiIntroduction to The Conservative Critique of Liberalism 1David McGrogan and Martin Beckstein1 ‘True striving for right and freedom’: Prussian old-conservatism between reception and appropriation of liberalpolitical thought 15Laura C. Achtelstetter and Alexander Kruska2 A conservative (critical) theory for a postliberal era? TheGerman radical conservative Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner(1939–2011) 35Tobias Adler-Bartels3 For a new consensus: heroes of a postliberal turning? 57Claudia Franziska Brühwiler4 Conservatism and authority in the postmodern age 69Eno Trimçev5 Privacy and digital modernity: liberal and conservativeapproaches to technology, personalisation and the individual 88Kieron O’Hara6 Disregard of the empirical; optimism of the will: theabandonment of good government in the COVID-19 crisis 124David Campbell and Kevin Dowd7 A quietly conservative liberal: Ronald Dworkin and theAmerican politico-legal tradition 157Richard Mullender8 Continuity and change in the common law tradition 184James Campbell

‘This volume brings together scholars from various disciplines who, combined, develop a multi-dimensional critique of liberalism from a conservative point of view. The excellent contributions to this volume will be of great value for everyone who is interested in the complex relationship between liberalism and conservatism. Beyond its academic merits, this volume makes a major contribution to the broader public debates over the nature of liberalism, conservatism and the frictions between them.’