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[Anonymous No.17060158]

Best book on intellectual conservatism please. Roger Scruton any good?

[Anonymous No.17060172]

>>17060158
>intellectual
>conservatism
Those aren't real words outside of cultural groupings. Yes the "intellectual conservative" culture would say Scruton but don't take any of it to apply outside a political perspective in anything concerning that label

[Anonymous No.17060181]

>>17060172
Man. I just mean, give me a book that is for serious conservatives or centre/right leaning people.

[Anonymous No.17060186]

>>17060158
Start with de Maistre's "Considérations sur la France."
Also read Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France."
Anything by either of them is gold, and more importantly, not tainted by three-hundred years of Liberal and Marxist mind poison.

[Anonymous No.17060212]

>>17060158
Also, look into more pro-aristocratic works. Particularly Thomas Carlyle's "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History." If you want something more metaphysical, move on to Ernst Jünger.

[Anonymous No.17060285]

>>17060181
You're going to get nothing informative except sociological truths w no application even to material truths so whatever is said has no ladder to any science proving it much less a math or logic.

[Anonymous No.17060293]

>>17060158
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conservatism/

[Anonymous No.17060311]

>>17060158
Scruton is good

[Anonymous No.17060623]

>>17060285
Ignore this faggot, you will find sociological truths that will help you start to orient yourself morally and principally, which is more fucking important than "muh logic" or "muh science."

[Anonymous No.17061005]

>>17060158
for those with more comfy tastes
>the inklings
>the catholic revival (chesterton especially)
>wind in the willows
>burke and pobyedonostsev for politics
>medieval poetry/high romance and theology
for the other kind of conservative
>junger and schmitt
anything else is a bit to schizo for me

[Anonymous No.17062484]

>>17060158
Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss are amazing reads if you want intellectual conservatism. Roger Scruton is pretty good but I feel like sometimes he's a bit contrarian in his reasoning.

[Anonymous No.17062507]

>>17062484
Strauss is too Jewish, his conservatism is just cronyism in service to Jewish interests. Nationalism and "closed society" for Jews, decadent cosmopolitanism and "open society" for everyone else. His intellectual legacy is Irving fucking Kristol and neoconservatism for god's sake.

Read Gottfried's book on the Strauss crowd before trusting anything from Strauss. Anything Strauss wrote in or before the 1940s is probably okay but anything after that was propaganda for neocon globalism.

[Anonymous No.17062579]

As noted by others here, Burke is pretty baste.

[Anonymous No.17062637]

>>17060623
Sociological truths are derivative of ethical ones