'The extremes set the tone': Counter-Revolutionary Moderation in Continental Conservatism (ca. 1795-1835)

Authors
Publication date 2019
Host editors
  • I. de Haan
  • M. Lok
Book title The Politics of Moderation in Modern European History
ISBN
  • 9783030274146
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783030274153
Series Palgrave Studies in Political History
Chapter 4
Pages (from-to) 67-88
Publisher Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES)
Abstract Matthijs Lok focuses on the uses of moderation in continental counter-revolutionary and conservative thought, examining the case studies of Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, Étienne-Denis Pasquier, Niklas Vogt and Leopold von Ranke. Despite their differences, the authors all contrasted ‘revolution’ and ‘moderation’ and shared the idea that a strong state is the solution to a polarised political climate. Their idea of counter-Revolution was not a complete rejection, but a compromise between Ancien Régime and the new reality of the Revolution and its legacy.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27415-3_4
Published at https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvanl/detail.action?docID=5892495
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