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As a complex and multifaceted world-view, conservatism is often pigeonholed and partially understood. And while the nature of conservative ideology is warmly contested among scholars, no-one can deny its prominence in contemporary debates and its effects on the politics of everyday life.
These 16 essays written by expert scholars and specialists offer a broad survey of conservative thought that extends beyond typical historical and geographic boundaries to include past thinkers like Plato and Edmund Burke, non-European conservative traditions such as Japan and Russia, and political ‘practitioners’ including Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Charles de Gaulle. Each essay grapples with short primary source extracts while offering instructive criticism and commentary. Conservative Moments offers students a useful, accessible, and comprehensive exposition of this political ideology.
Edited by:
Mark Garnett
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781350001527
ISBN 10: 135000152X
Series: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 23 August 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Mark Garnett, (University of Lancaster, UK) I. Early Moments 1. Authority and Conservatism in Plato’s Republic, Joseph M. Ellis and Casey R. Pratt, (Wingate University, USA) 2. St Augustine’s “Two Cities”, Antidote for Modern Secular Progressivism?, W.J. Coats, (Connecticut College, USA) 3. Conservatism and Ibn Khaldun, Allen J Fromherz, (Georgia State University, USA) II. Modern Moments 4. Hume, James Harris, (University of St Andrews, UK) 5. Edmund Burke, Mark Garnett, (University of Lancaster, UK) 6. Alexander Hamilton, Michael Federichi, (Mercyhurst University, USA) 7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Morrow, (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 8. Leo Strauss: Theroretical Radical, Practical Liberal-Conservative, David Lewis Schaefer, (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, UK) 9. Michael Oakeshott, Ephraim Podoksik, (The Hewbrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) III. Conservatism in Contexts 10. Reflections on Cross-currents of Russian Conservatism, Elena Chebankova, (Lincoln University, UK) 11. Conservatism in Japan: Dealing with Discontinuity, Christian Winkler, (Hokkaido University, Japan) 12. Conservatism in Europe, The Political Thought of Christian Democracy, Martin Steven, (Lancaster University, UK) 13. Conservatism in Turkey, Bekir Varoglu, Mark Garnett and Simon Mabon (Lancaster University, UK) IV. Conservatism in Practice 14. Gaullism: A Personal Conservatism, David S. Bell, (University of Leeds, UK) 15. Ronald Reagan, Donald Critchlow, (Arizona State University, USA) 16. Margaret Thatcher, Kieron O’Hara, (University of Southampton, UK)
Mark Garnett is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Lancaster, UK. He is the author of The British Coalition Government, 2010-2015 (2016), Exploring British Politics, 4th Edition (2016) and Conservatism and Ideology (2015).
Reviews for Conservative Moments: Reading Conservative Texts
A first-rate collection of brief original texts and accompanying explicative essays that encourages readers to think deeply about the nature of conservatism. This is a substantial achievement in a small package and an intellectual pleasure no matter the reader's own predilections. * Robert M. Collins, Wm. H. Byler Professor of Social and Behavioural Science Emeritus, University of Missouri, USA * In this wide-ranging and discerning collection of essays, eighteen distinguished scholars help us to understand conservatism. The result is a deeper appreciation of the varieties and persistence of a political tendency that has crossed cultural boundaries and continues to influence our world. * George H Nash, author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 *
