Konzervatismus / Znovuobjevení – Hazony Yoram (2023)

The book by leading expert on the development of Western thought, Yoram Hazony, provides a very important answer to the question of what the true timeless values are that need to be defended for the preservation of our civilization. Hazony's analysis, which contains over 400 pages of highly readable text, attempts to address the issue from various perspectives and directions. ***** The West is heading towards civilizational, social, cultural, and moral decay. Liberalism, as Hazony notes, has been promoted by Western elites for several decades as a conservative direction and a universal cultural core of humanity. In practice, however, during its reign, it has been unable to conserve any of the important institutions of Western civilization, including family, marriage, or parenthood, the sovereign nation-state, love for the nation, national Christian tradition, intergenerational responsibility and solidarity, respect of children for parents, elders, and important authorities in general, or the conception of man as a bipartite being. Hazony's book is thus a call to rediscover and publicly advocate for values rooted in the national, Judeo-Christian tradition on which our civilization was founded and which alone are capable of preventing its ever-accelerating decay. ***** Even though...