{"product_id":"radical-conservatism-mitchum-huehls-9780197854297","title":"Radical Conservatism: U.S. Literature Against Liberalism","description":"Contemporary political discourse, reduced to a mutually exclusive logic that demands team loyalty and recoils at the whiff of complicity, has abandoned a set of highly generative ideas. On the surface, these ideas \u003cem\u003eseem\u003c\/em\u003e conservative--family, tradition, history, the land, autonomy, private property--but they can be deployed to achieve radical ends--antiracism, anticapitalism, inclusion, solidarity, diversity, and climate repair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eRadical Conservatism\u003c\/em\u003e reintroduces these mutually \u003cem\u003einclusive\u003c\/em\u003e ideas and thinks beyond the rigid polarities that define political thought today. Radically conservative thought offers a provocative critique of the liberal-capitalist status quo, but it does so in a way that is neither left-collectivist nor right-populist. Rather, radically conservative ideas are classically conservative, but given our contemporary political climate, they register as remarkably radical. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo do this conceptual work, \u003cem\u003eRadical Conservatism \u003c\/em\u003eturns to a rich vein of twentieth and twenty-first-century U.S. literature. This repertoire is generally hostile to the status quo liberalisms that have shaped normative U.S. political thought for centuries. From Sherwood Anderson to Ernest Gaines, and from bell hooks to Marilynne Robinson, the literature studied in\u003cem\u003e Radical Conservatism\u003c\/em\u003e pursues a humble, compassionate, non-judgmental, and generous engagement with the \u003cem\u003ewhole\u003c\/em\u003e world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mitchum Huehls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019785429X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197854297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.59h x 6.44w x 0.72d","brand":"Mitchum Huehls","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49084077506815,"sku":"9780197854297","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/radical-conservatism-mitchum-huehls-9780197854297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}