Conservative Critics of Political Utopia

The 19th and 20th centuries were fundamentally influenced by different
ideologies. Some of them were more dangerous than others, but a conservative
tradition - although adapting to the continuously changing conditions -
consistently refused each artificial intellectual construction. For some, the
distance conservative thinkers have kept from those ideological structures
appears purely reactionary but for others it is a proof of credibility and
authenticity. Transforming society, putting an end to the past and attempting
to proclaim a new, golden era are heresies and utopian proposals to
conservatives. In our book, researchers from the catholic universities of
Lisbon and Budapest present several different portraits of authors from Burke
to Maritain, from Donoso Cortés to Chantal Delsol. Together, they offer a
series of intellectual spotlights, which might enlighten the intellectual
evolution of a person - and community - oriented conservative tradition in its
endless fight against the too often tragic and sinister political utopia.