TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Hara,Kieron
TI  - Conservatism
SN  - 9781861898128
AV  - JC 573.2 O36c 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Reaktion Books
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - Political science
KW  - History
KW  - Conservatismo
KW  - Conservadurismo
KW  - Historia
N1  - Foreword / by The Rt Hon. David Willetts MP --  Introduction --  First principle --  pt. 1. What Conservatism is ; Knowledge --  Change --  What Conservatism stands for --  pt. 2. What Conservatism is not --  Misperceptions --  Misconceptions --  Conservatism and liberalism --  pt. 3. What Conservatism might be --  The viability of Conservatism in the modern and postmodern worlds --  Green Conservatism --  The hardest political task : telling the truth
N2  - Kieron O'Hara gives a new account of what 'conservative' actually means, refashioning the traditional conservative philosophy for a modern age. He draws on the works of thinkers such as Edmund Burke and Adam Smith, philosophers from Plato to Ludwig Wittgenstein, and today's social commentators such as Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Jared Diamond
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