Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: surveying the landscape and defining terms
The seventeenth-century denigration of tradition and a nineteenth-century response
Michael oakeshott and the epistemic role of tradition
Alasdair macintyre's tradition-constituted inquiry
Michael polanyi and role of tacit knowledge
The incoherence of liberalism and the response of tradition
Afterword: a conservatism worth conserving, or conservatism as stewardship
Notes
Bibliography
Index.