SCLG3601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Neoconservatism, Christian Right, White Nationalism
4 Nov 2018
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Lecture 7 part 2: white nationalism anti-migrant politics (week 10) Many of pauline hanson"s white nationalist politics recuperated by john howard. Each of these social conservative philosophies are in some way critical of radical free market economics on moral grounds. They seek to restore civic virtue, family values, moral values in the face of what they see as the market"s homogenizing, morally neutralizing onslaught. (an essentially moral critique of neoliberalism - they are not interested in restoring equality) Neoliberals, for their part, are not social conservatives see hayek why i am not a. Conservative ; some are self-consciously indifferent to traditional moral values concerning drugs, sex, crime (friedman, becker, posner); some respect the value of religious traditions for pragmatic purposes (hayek) How does a project that empties the world of meaning, that cheapens and deracinates life and openly exploits desire, intersect one focused on fixing and enforcing meanings, conserving certain ways of life, and repressing and regulating desire? .
