Conservative Moments Reading Conservative Texts [Hardcover]

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 Momentsoffers students a useful, accessible, and comprehensive exposition of this political ideology.

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction,Mark Garnett, (University of Lancaster, UK)
I. Early Moments
1. Authority and Conservatism in Plato'sRepublic,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)