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Noël O'Sullivan is currently Research Professor of Political Philosophy at the
University of Hull , mottoeng = Bearing the Torch f learning, established = 1927 – University College Hull1954 – university status , type = Public , endowment = £18.8 million (2016) , budget = £190 million ...
. He studied at the London School of Economics and
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. In 1967 he joined the Politics Department at Hull University. In 1992 he was given a personal chair in political philosophy at Hull. In his book on
conservatism Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in ...
O'Sullivan argued that "No single unifying idea is to be found in the English conservative tradition, except perhaps a certain scepticism and a pragmatic emphasis". O'Sullivan argued that
fascism Fascism is a far-right, Authoritarianism, authoritarian, ultranationalism, ultra-nationalist political Political ideology, ideology and Political movement, movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and pol ...
was one example of the new revolutionary style of modern politics, of which
communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a ...
was also a manifestation. He also argued that fascism was an extreme example of the "activist" style of politics, which he defined as one that substitutes ideology for law, subordinates individuals to an all-embracing political order, has no intrinsic respect for constitutional forms, and rejects the existence of historic frontiers as a relevant determinant of its scope. This style of politics owed much, O'Sullivan claimed, to
millenarianism Millenarianism or millenarism (from Latin , "containing a thousand") is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming fundamental transformation of society, after which "all things will be changed". Millenariani ...
and
civic humanism Classical republicanism, also known as civic republicanism or civic humanism, is a form of republicanism developed in the Renaissance inspired by the governmental forms and writings of classical antiquity, especially such classical writers as Ar ...
. John Gray has called O'Sullivan a "genuine expert on conservative thought and a profound scholar".Noël O'Sullivan
at the
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Works

*''Conservatism'' (London: Littlehampton, 1976). *''Fascism'' (London: Dent, 1983). *''Santayana'' (London: Claridge, 1992). *''European Political Thought since 1945'' (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). *''The Place of Michael Oakeshott in Contemporary Western and Non-Western Thought'' (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2017).


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{{DEFAULTSORT:OSullivan, Noël Living people Academics of the University of Hull Alumni of the London School of Economics Philosophy academics English political philosophers Year of birth missing (living people)