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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Mark Garnett is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University, UK. Klappentext This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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. Vorwort Explores the work of the pivotal thinkers in the conservative tradition from its intellectual origins in Plato to the present. Zusammenfassung This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
