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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Machine generated contents note:pt. ONEEarly moments --1.Authority and conservatism in Plato's Republic /Casey R. Pratt --2.St Augustine's 'two cities' -- antidote for modern secular progressivism? /W. J. Coats --3.Conservatism and Ibn Khaldun /Allen J. Fromherz --pt. TWOModern moments --4.Hume /James A. Harris --5.Edmund Burke (1729-97) /Mark Garnett --6.Alexander Hamilton /Michael P. Federici --7.Samuel Taylor Coleridge /John Morrow --8.Leo Strauss: Theoretical radical, practical liberal-conservative /David Lewis Schaefer --9.Michael Oakeshott 'On Being Conservative' /Ephraim Podoksik --pt. THREEConservatism in contexts --10.Reflections on cross-currents of Russian conservatism /Elena Chebankova --11.Conservatism in Japan: Dealing with discontinuity /Christian Winkler --12.Conservatism in Europe -- the political thought of Christian Democracy /Martin Steven --13.Conservatism in Turkey /Simon Mabon --pt. FOURConservatism in practice --14.Gaullism: A personal conservatism /David S. Bell --15.Ronald Reagan /Donald Critchlow --16.Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) /Kieron O'Hara.