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How to Be a Conservative
is a 2014 book by the English philosopher
Roger Scruton
, in which the author outlines the
conservative
ideology, its opposition to
economic materialism
, and argues how it can be applied to crucial contemporary issues.
Reception
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Jesse Norman
wrote in
The Spectator
: "There are occasional missteps and the odd mini-rant, but the book is highly engaging, and studded with insights into topics as diverse as international treaties, alienation and the nature of laughter."
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In
Standpoint
,
David Willetts
wrote that the book "communicates a distinctive conservative disposition with great charm and formidable learning."
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Willetts wrote that Scruton:
is very good on the importance of autonomous institutions ? what I called
civic conservatism
. But he is surprisingly uninterested in where this great tradition comes from or how it has changed over time. He appears to regard it as a happy and perhaps rather accidental gift from history. This means that his account of the role of Conservatives is rather passive and incurious.
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Translations
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A
Swedish
translation was published in 2016. The book has also been translated into
Czech
by Jana Ogrocka and into
Latvian
by Kri?j?nis L?cis. The Czech translation was published in 2021.
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