Conservatism: An Invitation to a Great Tradition

The distinguished philosopher Roger Scruton takes readers from the origins of conservatism as a political philosophy in the 16th century to the present day and shows that conservative thinking has played an important role in the intellectual history of the West.
Moreover, without such conservatives as Edmund Burke, the Viscount de Chateaubriand, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Friedrich Hayek, and José Ortega y Gasset, Western civilization would never have become the combination of freedom and responsibility that has ensured its success until recently.
Is "conservatism" really backwardness, a symbol of unwillingness to change? Are conservatives really those who opposed freedom? Roger Scruton answers these questions with argument. He shows conservatism from another side - through the works of Hasset and Hayek, the poems of Eliot and Rilke, the music of Hofmannsthal and Strauss. This is not a denial of progress, but what made the West free and successful.
For those who are interested in the essence of conservatism - without prejudice and layers of stereotypes. For everyone who is interested in history, philosophy, art.