Publisher's Synopsis
Conservatism, as a political movement, is familiar. Conservatism as a philosophy, however, remains obscure. Attaining its modern form in reaction ot the French Revolution, conservatism has been an intellectual - as well as amoral and political - force for two centuries. Gradually its ideas and arguments have acquired from and precision, and its principal luminaries have been identified.;In his book of extracts, Roger Scruton - himself well known as an exponent of conservative philosophy - has gathered the principal arguments from the writings of the major intellectual conservatives from Edmund Burke to the present day. Designed for students of political science, and for all with an interest in social philosophy, the volume shows the remarkable coherence of modern conservatism and its effectiveness as an answer to both societies and liberal thinking.;Roger Scruton's other Macmillan titles include "The Meaning of Conservatism", "A Dictionary of Political Thought" and "Untimely Tracts".
