Intellectual Conservatism - From Burke to Scruton

This book examines the history of intellectual conservatism from its late 18th century "founding father", Edmund Burke to its last great representative, the recently died Sir Roger Scruton.

List of contents

PART 1 Conservative Views, Conservative Thinkers
1 A Substantive Framework for Conservative Constitutional Goods Daniel Pitt
2 Oakeshott, Cowling, Scruton: Three Workshops of British Intellectual Conservatism Before and Under the Thatcher Regime Ferenc Hörcher
3 The Conservative Sensibility of Evelyn Waugh P. Bracy Bersnak
4 Michael Oakeshott: Civil Association and Conservatism Christopher Fear
PART 2 Conservative Ideas and the Conservative Party
5 Conservatism and Conservative Success Philip Norton
6 The 'New Conservatism' of the 1920s: The State, Capitalism, Democracy and the Challenge of Socialism Stuart Ball
7 Noel Skelton, Constructive Conservatism, and the Intellectual Origins of the Property Owning Democracy James Vitali
8 The LSE Right, Thatcherism and the Future of the Conservative Party Ojel L. Rodriguez Burgos
PART 3 Conservatism and Free Speech
9 Thought, Speech, and Action: Marxism and the Culture War Matt Beech
10 A British Indian Understanding of Free Speech and Intellectual Conservatism Zeena Mistry
PART 4 Conservatism, Religion and Monarchy
11 Does Conservatism Require Grace? Attempting to Answer the Question that Haunts Conservatism Sebastian Morello
12 The Transcendent Source of Practical Wisdom in the Conservative Instinct Imogen Sinclair
13 What Should Govern Us Phillip Blond

About the author

is a historian of political thought, research professor and head of the Research Institute of Politics and Government of the University of Public Service and a senior fellow of the Institute of Philosophy of HUN-REN. He recently published a monograph on Roger Scruton.
Dr Daniel Pitt is a Teaching Associate at the University of Sheffield and an Associate Fellow at the Centre for British Politics at the University of Hull. Daniel recently co-edited The Post Liberal Turn and the Future of Conservatism with Phillip Blond.

Product details

• Authors: Ferenc Pitt Horcher
• Assisted by: Ferenc Hörcher (Editor), Pitt Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032754369
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3275436-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, History and Archaeology, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General