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Title

The meaning of conservatism / Roger Scruton.

Author

Scruton, Roger

Publication

Hampshire, Great Britain : Palgrave, c2001.

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Details

Description

xii, 206 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

• "First published in 1980, The Meaning of Conservatism is now recognized as a major contribution to political thought, and the liveliest and most provocative modern statement of the traditional "paleo-conservative" position. Roger Scruton challenges those who would regard themselves as conservatives, and also their opponents. Conservatism, he argues, has little in common with liberalism, and is only tenuously related to the market economy, to monetarism, to free enterprise, or to capitalism. It involves neither hostility toward the state, nor the desire to limit the state's obligation toward the citizen. Its conceptions of society, law, and citizenship regard the individual not as the premise but as the conclusion of politics.
• At the same time it is fundamentally opposed to the ethic of social justice, to equality of station, opportunity, income, and achievement, and to the attempt to bring major institutions of society - such as schools and universities - under government control."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Conservatism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: philosophy, policy and doctrine -- The conservative attitude -- Authority and allegiance -- Constitution and the State -- Law and liberty -- Property -- Alienated labour -- The autonomous institution -- Establishment -- The public world -- Philosophical appendix: liberalism versus conservatism.

ISBN

189031840X

LCCN

^^2001002444

OCLC

• 46835286
• SCSB-12754604

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library