Conservative Moments: Reading Conservative Texts

Conservative Moments: Reading Conservative Texts

Conservative Moments: Reading Conservative Texts

Conservative Moments: Reading Conservative Texts

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350001534
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/23/2018
Series: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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)

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