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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Conservatism about Editor, Platonic, American with the genre: New, Used & Rental Textbooks, Social Sciences.
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conversations.value: Editor the author argues persuasively in his introduction that conservatism is best understood as a particularistic ideology rooted in place and time rather than a universal one adhering to a set of Platonic ideals. In other words, an American conservative today is not the same as a French one from 200 years ago. But conservatives everywhere do share a number of traits in common, says the author, including a belief in human imperfection and the limits of human knowledge, faith in habit and custom, and appreciation for the utility of religion, if not necessarily the truth of it. Conservatism provides an overview to an important mode of political thought, and one that will, at the very least, get right-wingers to reflect upon their own first principles.
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Conservatism
  Arnold, Matthew, Culture and Anarchy, 1869; edited by Jane Garnett, Oxford, Oxford World's Classics, 2009
  Bentham, Jeremy, Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789; New York, Dover Philosophical Classics, 2007
  Blackstone, Sir William, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1765–69, edited by Wilfrid Prest, 4 vols, Oxford, OUP, 2016
  Buchanan, James M., and Tullock, Gordon, The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy, first appearing 1962 onwards, 3 vols, Liberty Foundation 1999
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conversations.value: Give me another paragraph.
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conversations.value: Kirk, Russell, The Conservative Mind, from Burke to Eliot, 1953; abridged edition, New York, Stellar Classics, 2016
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, 1873–4; Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1884; reissued, Literary Licencing LLC, 2014
  Tocqueville, Comte Alexis de, De la démocratie en Amérique, 1835; Democracy in America and Two Essays on America, edited by Isaac Kramnick, Harmondsworth, Penguin Classics, 2003
  Tocqueville, Comte Alexis de, L'ancien regime et la Révolution, 1856; The Old Regime and the Revolution, edited by John Bonner, New York, Dover Books, 2010
  Weil, Simone, L'Enracinement: Prélude à une declaration des devoirs envers l'être humain, 1949; The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind; translated by Arthur Wills, with preface by T. S. Eliot, London, Routledge Classics, 2001
  Weil, Simone, La pesanteur et la grâce, 1952; translated as Gravity and Grace by Emma Crawford and Marion von der Ruhr, with introduction by Gustave Thibon, new edition, London, Routledge, 2002