Conservative Moments

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).

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction, Mark Garnett, (University of Lancaster, UK)I. Early Moments1. 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 Moments4. 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 Contexts10. 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 Practice14. 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)

A first-rate collection of brief original texts and accompanying explicative essays that encourages readers to think deeply about the nature of conservatism. This is a substantial achievement in a small package and an intellectual pleasure no matter the reader’s own predilections.