{"product_id":"the-rise-of-common-sense-conservatism-antti-lepist-9780226774046","title":"The Rise of Common-Sense Conservatism: The American Right and the Reinvention of the Scottish Enlightenment","description":"In the years following the election of Donald Trump--a victory that hinged on the votes of white Midwesterners who were both geographically and culturally distant from the media's coastal concentrations--there has been a flurry of investigation into the politics of the so-called \"common man.\" The notion that the salt-of-the-earth purity implied by this appellation is best understood by conservative politicians is no recent development, though. As Antti Lepist  shows in his timely and erudite book, the intellectual wellsprings of conservative \"common sense\" discourse are both older and more transnational than has been thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In considering the luminaries of American neoconservative thought--among them Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, James Q. Wilson, and Francis Fukuyama--Lepist  argues that the centrality of their conception of the common man accounts for the enduring power and influence of their thought. Intriguingly, Lepist  locates the roots of this conception in the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment, revealing how leading neoconservatives weaponized the ideas of Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, and David Hume to denounce postwar liberal elites, educational authorities, and social reformers. Their reconfiguration of Scottish Enlightenment ideas ultimately gave rise to a defining force in modern conservative politics: the common sense of the common man. Whether twenty-first-century politicians who invoke the grievances of \"the people\" are conscious of this unusual lineage or not, Lepist  explains both the persistence of the trope and the complicity of some conservative thinkers with the Trump regime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Antti Lepistö\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022677404X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226774046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d","brand":"Antti Lepistö","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43993474957567,"sku":"9780226774046","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f5387c9d-60df-4895-8769-b365bfe7a69d.jpg?v=1683324539","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-rise-of-common-sense-conservatism-antti-lepist-9780226774046","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}