* = Huvudsakliga källor till den bild av konservatismen som ges i boken
Almqvist, Kurt & Linder, PJ Anders: I konservatismernas tid, Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse 2020.
Baudet, Thierry: The Significance of Borders – Why Representative Government and the Rule of Law Require Nation States, Brill 2012.
Bengtsson, Jan Olof: The Worldview of Personalism – Origins and Early Development, Oxford University Press 2006.
* Berkowitz, Peter (red): Varieties of Conservatism in America, Hoover Press 2004.
* Björck, Anders & Arfwedson, Anders: Oövervinneliga tankar i urval – konservativ citatsamling, Högerns Ungdomsförbund 1968.
Björk, Ragnar, Edström, Bert & Lundén, Thomas: Rudolf Kjellén – Geopolitiken och konservatismen, Hjalmarson & Högberg 2014.
Blake, L. L.: The Prince and the Professor – A Dialogue on the Place of Monarchy in the 21st Century, Shepheard-Walwyn 1995.
Bloom, Harold: The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, Harcourt Brace 1994.
* Boudreaux, Donald J.: The Essential Hayek, Fraser Institute 2014.
* Burke, Edmund: Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings, Everyman’s Library 2015.
* Burke, Edmund: Reflektioner om Franska revolutionen (1790), Contra 1989.
Burman, Anders & Lettevall, Rebecka (red): Tysk idealism, Axl Books 2014.
* Cecil, Lord Hugh: Conservatism, Williams and Norgate 1912.
* Catlin, Graham R.: Core Conservatism: Edmund Burke’s Landmark Definition, Westbow Press 2020.
Corrêa de Oliveira, Plinio: Revolution and Counter-revolution, The American Society For the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property 1993.
* Covell, Charles: The Redefinition of Conservatism – Politics and Doctrine, Palgrave Macmillan 1986.
Croce, Benedetto: What is Living and What is Dead of the Philosophy of Hegel (1915), Russell & Russell 1969.
Croce, Benedetto: History as the Story of Liberty (1938), Liberty press 2000.
Dahl, Göran: Radical Conservatism and the Future of Politics, SAGE Publications Inc. 1999.
* Dahl, Per: Och sedan? Den nya borgerliga idédebatten, Hjalmarson & Högberg 2003.
* Dahl, Per och Ljungberg, Carl Johan (red): Förnuft & inlevelse – Burke mellan upplysning och romantik, Timbro 1990.
Dahlström, Annica: Könet sitter i hjärnan (2 uppl.), Corpus Gullers 2007.
* Elvander, Nils: Harald Hjärne och konservatismen – konservativ idédebatt i Sverige 1865 – 1922, Appelbergs boktryckeri 1961.
Eppler, Erhard: Ende oder Wende: Von der Machbarkeit des Notwendigen, Kolhammer 1975.
Forsskål, Peter: Tankar om borgerliga friheten (1759), Bokförlaget Rediviva 1984.
* Franco, Paul: Michael Oakeshott – An Introduction, Yale University Press 2004.
Fredriksson, Gunnar: Konservativa idéer – om pessimismens politiska filosofi, Tidens förlag 1986.
Fredriksson, Gunnar: 25 filosofer, Norstedts 2009.
Giubilei, Francesco: The History of European Conservative Thought, Regnery Publishing 2019.
Gottfried, Paul Edward: The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right, Northern Illinois University Press, 1986.
* Green, E.H.H: Ideologies of Conservatism, Oxford University Press 2002.
Haage, Fredrik: Nycklar till modern konservatism, Timbro 2001.
* Hagberg, Knut: Burke, Metternich, Disraeli, P.A. Nortedt & söners förlag 1931.
* Hakelius, Johan: Förmögen till värdighet – Wilhelm Röpke, människan och ekonomin, Timbro 1999.
* Hamilton, Andy: ”Conservatism”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2016 Ed.), Edward N. Zalta (red.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2016/entries/conservatism/>.
von Hayek, Friedrich: Frihetens grundvalar, Timbro 2015.
von Hayek, Friedrich: Vägen till träldom: Till socialister i alla partier, Timbro 1996.
* Hegel, G. W. F.: Andens fenomenologi (1807), Thales 2008.
* Hegel, G.W.F.: Outlines of the Philosophy of Right (1820), övers. av T.M. Knox 1952, Oxford University Press, 2008.
* Hillerdal, Gunnar (m.fl.): Ung konservatism – Nio inlägg i samhällsdebatten, Natur och Kultur 1962.
* Huntington, Samuel P.: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996), Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2003.
Häggman, Bertil (red): Internationell konservatism, Konservativt Idéforum 1975.
Häggman, Bertil & Ryn, Claes G.: Nykonservatismen i USA, Geber 1971.
* Jones, Emily: Edmund Burke & the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830–1914: An Intellectual History, Oxford University Press 2017.
* Kaufmann, Walter (red): Hegel’s Political Philosophy, Atherton Press 1970.
Kekes, John: A Case For Conservatism, Cornell University Press 1998.
Kennedy, Angus: Being Cultured – in defence of discrimination, Imprint Academic 2014.
* Kirk, Russell: A Program for Conservative (1954), revised ed.,HenryRegnery Company 1962.
* Kirk, Russell: Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered (1967), 3rd revised ed., ISI Books 1997.
* Kirk, Russell: Economics: Work and Prosperity (1989), A Beka Book 1999.
Kirk, Russell: Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormity in Literature and Politics, Arlington House 1969.
Kirk, Russell: Redeeming the Time, ISI 1996.
* Kirk, Russell: Russell Kirk’s Concise Guide to Conservatism (1957),Regnery Gateway 2019.
* Kirk, Russell: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953), 7th revised ed., Regnery Publishing 2001.
* Kirk, Russell: The Politics of Prudence, Access Publishers Network, 1993.
Kirk, Russell: The Roots of American Order (1974), ISI Books 2003.
* Larsson, Reidar: Politiska ideologier i vår tid (7 uppl.), Studentlitteratur 2005.
* Lewis, C.S.: The Abolition of Man (1943), Lits 2010.
* Liedman, Sven-Eric: Från Platon till kommunismens fall – de politiska idéernas historia, Albert Bonniers Förlag 2002.
Lindbom, Tage: Konservatism i vår tid, Norma 1996.
Ljungberg, Carl Johan, Swedberg, Christian & Söderbaum, Jakob E:son: Betongväldet – om socialdemokratins kontroll och maktfullkomlighet, Empron 2007.
* Ljungberg, Carl Johan: Edmund Burke, Pocketbiblioteket Nr 34, SNS Förlag 2008.
* Ljungberg, Carl Johan: Irving Babbitt – Etik, demokrati och ledarskap, Prisma 2002.
Ljunggren, Stig-Björn: Ideologier (ny reviderad uppl.), Hjalmarson & Högberg 2008.
McKay, John P, Hill, Bennett D., Buckler, John & Ebrey, Patricia Buckley: A History of World Societies, 5th ed, Houghton Mifflin Company 2000.
* Nisbet, Robert: Conservatism – Dream and Reality (1986), revised ed., Transaction Publishers 2009.
Nisbet, Robert: The Quest for Community (1953), ISI Books 2010.
* Oakeshott, Michael: On Human Conduct, Oxford University Press 1975.
* Oakeshott, Michael: Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, Methuen & Co 1962.
O’Hara, Kieron: Conservatism, Reaktion Books 2011.
* Olsson, Stefan: Handbok i konservatism, Atlantis 2011.
Ortega y Gasset, José: The Revolt of the Masses (1932), Norton paperback 1993.
* Pafford, John M.: Russell Kirk, Bloomsbury 2013.
Palmer, R.R. & Colton, J: Nya tidens världshistoria Del 1 (2:a utökade uppl.), Esselte Studium 1981.
Pettersson, Simon O.: Svenska konservativa profiler, Realia 2017.
Rodhe, Edvard: Geijer och samhället – en studie i svensk tradition, Svenska Kyrkans Diakonistyrelses Bokförlag 1942.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques: Émile eller Om Uppfostran (1762), Del 1-2, Stegeland 1977-1978.
* Røe Isaksen, Torbjørn: Høyre om! For en ny konservatisme, Cappelen 2008.
* Røe Isaksen, Torbjørn & Syse, Henrik (red): Konservatisme, Universitetsforlaget 2011.
Ryn, Claes G.: Will, Imagination, and Reason: Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality, 2:a uppl., Routledge 1997.
Ryn, Claes G.: A Common Human Ground: Universality and Particularity in a Multicultural World, University of Missouri Press 2003.
* Röpke, Wilhelm: A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market (1960), 3rd edited ed., ISI Books 1998.
* Santorum, Rick: It Takes a Family – Conservatism and the Common Good, ISI Books 2005.
* Scruton, Roger: A Politcal Philosohpy – Arguments For Conservatism, Continuum 2006.
* Scruton, Roger: Conservatism – An Invitation to the Great Tradition, Profile Books 2017.
* Scruton, Roger: Culture Counts – Faith & Feeling in a World Besieged, Encounter Books 2007.
* Scruton, Roger: England and the Need for Nations, Civitas 2006.
* Scruton, Roger: How to be a Conservative, Bloomsbury 2014.
* Scruton, Roger: How to think Seriously About the Planet – The Case For An Environmental Conservatism, Oxford University Press 2012.
* Scruton, Roger: On Human Nature, Princeton University Press 2017.
* Scruton, Roger: The Meaning of Conservatism (1980), rev. 3rd ed., St Augustine’s Press 2002.
* Scruton, Roger: The Philosopher on Dover Beach, Carcanet 1990.
Scruton, Roger: The Soul of the World, Princeton University Press 2014.
Scruton, Roger: The Uses of Pessimism – And the Danger of False Hope, Atlantic Books 2010.
Scruton, Roger: Where We Are: The State of Britain Now, Bloomsbury Continuum 2017.
* Singer, Peter: Hegel – A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press 1983.
* Smith, Dean: Conservatism: A Guide to its Past, Present and Future in American Politics, Avon Book Division 1963.
Stjernquist, Nils (red): Sveriges konstitutionella urkunder, SNS Förlag 1999.
* Sveriges Konservativa Studentförbund: Den moderna konservatismen (programförklaring), Horisont 1961.
Taylor, Charles: Hegel och det moderna samhället, Röda bokförlaget 1988.
Tingsten, Herbert: De konservativa idéerna, Aldus/Bonniers 1966.
Tännsjö, Torbjörn: Konservatism, Thales 2001.
* Unger, Gunnar (red): Kämpande konservatism, Natur och Kultur 1971.
* Viereck, Peter: Conservatism – From John Adams to Churchill, D. van Nostrand Company, 1956.
* Viereck, Peter: Conservatism Revisited – The Revolt Against Ideology (1949), Routledge 2017.
Wollstad, Amanda & Ydstedt, Anders (red): Liberalkonservatism – Oförenliga storheter?, Förlagsaktiebolaget Svensk Tidskrift 2018.
Zimmerman, Carle C: Family and Civilization (1947), ISI Books 2008.
Zmirak, John: Wilhelm Röpke – Swiss Localist, Global Economist, ISI Books 2001.
* Özsel, Doğancan (red): Reflections on Conservatism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011.
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