The Portable conservative reader / edited, with an introduction and notes, by Russell Kirk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kirk, Russell.

Series:

Viking portable library

The Viking portable library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Conservatism.

Physical Description:

xl, 723 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England ; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1982.

Summary:

The Portable Conservative Reader illuminates the meaning of the conservative cause. In one of the most wide-ranging and thoughtful anthologies of conservative thought in the English and American traditions, Russell Kirk excavates conservatism's foundations. The breadth of conservative writing reveals that, at bottom, the conservative idea is not an economic theory nor a political program but a penetrating way of looking at the human condition. Here, Kirk brings together a diverse group of thinkers and material - including essays, poetry, and fiction - that articulate the conservative imagination, its veneration of tradition, prudence, variety, and the enduring fallibility and imperfectibility of mankind. These selections set forth basic premises and principles at work in the minds of Edmund Burke, Benjamin Disraeli, and T. S. Eliot in Britain, Alexander Hamilton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Adams, and Irving Kristol in America, and many more who have elucidated this turn of mind. This balanced and surprising collection is a landmark study of the most potent political force of our time.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages [711]-712.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0140150951

OCLC:

7813900