Conservatism and its modernising, anti-traditionalist rivals, liberalism and socialism, are the foremost influential political philosophies and ideologies of the post-Enlightenment era. Conservatives criticise their rivals for creating a utopian exaggeration of the facility of theoretical reason, and of human perfectibility.

Feminist political philosophy is a neighborhood of philosophy that's partially focused on understanding and critiquing the way political philosophy is typically construed—often with none attention to feminist concerns—and on articulating how political orientation could be reconstructed during a way that advances feminist concerns. Feminist political philosophy may be a branch of both feminist philosophy and political philosophy.