Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.85

复旦-LSE讲座系列第85期

Title/题目

Beyond the Post-Liberal critique — Why Conservatism has Failed

超越后自由主义批判——保守主义为何失败

Speaker/主讲人

Prof. Paul Kelly, LSE

Paul Kelly教授 伦敦政治经济学院

Host/主持人

Prof. Yijia Jing, Fudan IGPP

敬乂嘉教授 全球公共政策研究院

Discussant / 评论人

Prof. Gangsheng Bao, Fudan SIRPA

包刚升教授 国际关系与公共事务学院

Prof. Xi Lin, Fudan IAS

林曦教授 社会科学高等研究院

Time/时间

10:10-11:15, April 7th, Tuesday, 2026

2026年4月7日 周二 10:10-11:15

Venue/地点

Room 805E, 8th Floor, West Sub-building of Guanghua Towers

光华楼西辅楼8楼805E会议室

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主讲人介绍/ The Speaker：

Prof. Paul Kelly 

Paul Kelly is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and a former Pro-Director. He is the author and editor of twenty books and has edited and co-edited two Journals. His most recent publications are Against Post-Liberalism: Why Faith, Family and Flag is a Dead End for the Left (Polity 2025), and Conflict, War and Revolution (LSE Press 2022). His current work is on the prospects for liberal political theory in the current political climate and seeks to address and critique the familiar criticisms of a liberal order. He is currently completing two books Why Conservatism Failed and Order, Justice and the Common Good. His longer-term project is tentatively entitled Augustinian Liberalism.

讲座内容/ Abstract:

In this lecture I will develop the argument of my most recent book Against Post-Liberalism, which was the subject of a recent IGPP lecture and develop its conclusions for the future of conservatism as a political ideology in the US and UK. In particular I will respond to and develop my argument in light of that of Matt Sleat in his recent book Post-Liberalism, and will then outline my own critique of the candidates for a conservative ideology emerging in those countries. My argument will comprise turning the argument of Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed back onto the conservative movement and then explore how the potential reconfigurations of the conservative movement in both countries necessarily fail on their own terms or have abandoned any pretence at conservatism through their rationalist recovery of a right-wing radicalism.