Ishaan Jajodia | Source | Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science at Yale University
Ishaan Jajodia
Ishaan Jajodia is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Yale, prior to which he earned an AB at Dartmouth College in Art History. His dissertation project, “Between Town and Country: City Planning as Political Philosophy in Practice”, examines cities from Ancient Greece to the cities of tomorrow, looking at how cities embody and reflect political philosophy’s practical application throughout history and chart a trajectory for cities past, present, and future. Jajodia has also written and published on sportsmanship, Edmund Burke, and Benjamin Disraeli, and has presented research at universities across the country.
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Yale University
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science
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Dartmouth College (https://home.dartmouth.edu)
AB
Sep 2016 – Apr 2021
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The Post-Liberal Turn and the Future of Conservatism - Ludovika könyvek
Our culture is going through an epochal shift. The end of liberalism as the dominant philosophy is over. Liberalism has been the hegemonic political philosophy for many years, becoming especially prominent during and after the 1960s in the Western world. However, the British public, particularly Conservative voters, are predominantly post-liberal conservatives. This book aims to build on a conference co-organised by the Danube Institute and the Eötvös József Research Centre of the University of Public Service. The conference provided a platform for various assessments of the current state of affairs. Its unique flavour was enhanced by being held in Budapest, a city that has garnered significant international conservative attention. The purpose of the book to provide scholarly, rigorous, yet practical contributions to the ongoing debate within Britain and conservatism about the future of British conservatism, the Conservative Party, and the potential of the conservative movement within it. The book is...
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Artefacts of Culture: The Constitutional Theories of Edmund Burke and Benjamin Disraeli
Edmund Burke and Benjamin Disraeli defend an understanding of the English constitution that val- ues culture and cultural history against the attacks of Enlightenment rationalists and utilitarians, which promote theories of abstract right and principle that disavow the impact of the particular development of polities and their peoples. One cannot understand the constitution of a coun- try without recourse to the constitution of its peoples, and thus cultural history becomes more than a simple flourish on top of long political struggle. Engaging with Burke and Disraeli’s constitutional defences, standing athwart English Romanticism, reflect a political understanding where con- stitutions can only be understood with recourse to culture, and thus constitutional history takes the form of cultural history, and vice-versa. In looking toward France, and es- pecially the aftermath of the French Revolution, Burke and Disraeli find a constitution and politics that is completely alienated from French culture and cultural history, thus condemning it to failure, if not perpetual tyranny, and Disraeli extends this criticism to other countries, reflect- ing the pitfalls of blindly copying constitutions when cul- ture cannot support it. Thus cultural history and constitu- tional history are deeply and fundamentally intertwined for Burke and Disraeli, and to understand one, it is necessary to know the other equally well.
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