Disraeli’s Significant Influence on Enoch Powell’s Tory Conception of Nationhood

Disraeli’s Significant Influence on Enoch Powell’s Tory Conception of Nationhood

After serving as a brigadier within the British army in India for three years until 1946, Enoch Powell decided to start a political career and joined the Conservative Party. He was recruited in the CRD (Conservative Research Department) where he was trained to Conservatism in a Disraelian way. At th...

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1. Verfasser: Porion, Stéphane
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Veröffentlicht: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 2025
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Empire
nation
Disraeli (Benjamin)
Powell (Enoch)
Tory
patriotisme
Conservatisme One Nation
Race
Nationhood
patriotism
One Nation Conservatism
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:cve_15721 https://doi.org/10.4000/13qt0 urn:doi:10.4000/13qt0 en https://journals.openedition.org/cve/15721 2025-04-11T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/13qt0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Disraeli’s Significant Influence on Enoch Powell’s Tory Conception of Nationhood Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-6149 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0220-5610 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cve Porion, Stéphane Empire nation Disraeli (Benjamin) Powell (Enoch) Tory patriotisme Conservatisme One Nation Race Empire Disraeli (Benjamin) Powell (Enoch) Tory Nationhood nation patriotism One Nation Conservatism Race After serving as a brigadier within the British army in India for three years until 1946, Enoch Powell decided to start a political career and joined the Conservative Party. He was recruited in the CRD (Conservative Research Department) where he was trained to Conservatism in a Disraelian way. At the time, Powell acknowledged several times that the figure of Disraeli had inspired him. Despite being a founding member of the One Nation Group (ONG) in 1950, whose aim was to reappropriate the legacy and myth of Disraeli, Powell swiftly shifted to free market ideas in 1952 and took his distance from this source of inspiration on the economic level. What is striking is that when the key tenets of Powellism akin to Hayekian economic principles were visible in the mid-1960s, Powell had already developed his own concept of the ‘nation’ out of Disraeli’s fiction. This paper aims to analyse to what extent Powell used Disraeli’s ideas (put forward in his 1840s trilogy) in a selective way to develop his own understanding of the nation. Après avoir servi comme général de brigade dans l’armée britannique en Inde pendant trois ans jusqu’en 1946, Enoch Powell décide d’entamer une carrière politique et rejoint le Parti conservateur. Il est recruté au CRD (Conservative Research Department) où il est formé à une approche disraélienne du conservatisme. À l’époque, Powell a reconnu à plusieurs reprises que la figure de Disraeli l’avait inspiré. Bien que membre fondateur du One Nation Group (ONG) en 1950, dont l’objectif était de se réapproprier l’héritage et le mythe de Disraeli, Powell est rapidement devenu un défenseur de l’économie de marché en 1952 et a pris ses distances avec cette source d’inspiration sur le plan économique. Ce qui est frappant, c’est que lorsque les principes clés du Powellisme, apparentés aux principes économiques hayekiens, sont apparus au milieu des années 1960, Powell avait déjà développé sa propre conception de la « nation » à partir des romans de Disraeli. Cet article vise à analyser dans quelle mesure Powell a utilisé les idées de Disraeli (présentées dans sa trilogie des années 1840) de manière sélective afin de développer sa propre conception de la nation.
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topic Empire
nation
Disraeli (Benjamin)
Powell (Enoch)
Tory
patriotisme
Conservatisme One Nation
Race
Empire
Disraeli (Benjamin)
Powell (Enoch)
Tory
Nationhood
nation
patriotism
One Nation Conservatism
Race
spellingShingle Empire
nation
Disraeli (Benjamin)
Powell (Enoch)
Tory
patriotisme
Conservatisme One Nation
Race
Empire
Disraeli (Benjamin)
Powell (Enoch)
Tory
Nationhood
nation
patriotism
One Nation Conservatism
Race
Porion, Stéphane
Disraeli’s Significant Influence on Enoch Powell’s Tory Conception of Nationhood
description After serving as a brigadier within the British army in India for three years until 1946, Enoch Powell decided to start a political career and joined the Conservative Party. He was recruited in the CRD (Conservative Research Department) where he was trained to Conservatism in a Disraelian way. At the time, Powell acknowledged several times that the figure of Disraeli had inspired him. Despite being a founding member of the One Nation Group (ONG) in 1950, whose aim was to reappropriate the legacy and myth of Disraeli, Powell swiftly shifted to free market ideas in 1952 and took his distance from this source of inspiration on the economic level. What is striking is that when the key tenets of Powellism akin to Hayekian economic principles were visible in the mid-1960s, Powell had already developed his own concept of the ‘nation’ out of Disraeli’s fiction. This paper aims to analyse to what extent Powell used Disraeli’s ideas (put forward in his 1840s trilogy) in a selective way to develop his own understanding of the nation.
author Porion, Stéphane
author_facet Porion, Stéphane
author_sort Porion, Stéphane
title Disraeli’s Significant Influence on Enoch Powell’s Tory Conception of Nationhood
title_short Disraeli’s Significant Influence on Enoch Powell’s Tory Conception of Nationhood
title_full Disraeli’s Significant Influence on Enoch Powell’s Tory Conception of Nationhood
title_fullStr Disraeli’s Significant Influence on Enoch Powell’s Tory Conception of Nationhood
title_full_unstemmed Disraeli’s Significant Influence on Enoch Powell’s Tory Conception of Nationhood
title_sort disraeli’s significant influence on enoch powell’s tory conception of nationhood
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