The major crises of the 21
st
century – an age of geopolitical change and
spreading turbo-Keynesianism – show us how quickly the democratic and
free West can ostensibly lose ground. This is why society needs solid foundations more than ever before.
In the recent past, “conservative” was often illustrated by the image of
a person who is still sceptical about the Internet, who doesn’t know what
“social networking” means and whose spouse fetches his slippers and prepares his meals: in short, someone who is fearful, suspicious and oldfashioned: A large part of the public associates conservatism with precisely these qualities. Hence the main purpose of this volume: to provide a fundamental
overview of what conservatism means –.conservatism as a compass in a
increasingly complex world.
