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The essential Russell Kirk : selected essays / edited by George A. Panichas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kirk, Russell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conservatism.
- Political science.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xlv, 640 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 2007.
- Summary:
- As the author of The Conservative Mind and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movement's most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that Kirk's was principally a literary and historical conservatism that refused to fit the irreducible complexity of human experience to the requirements of any ideological straitjacket. With The Essential Russell Kirk, literary critic George A. Panichas captures the breadth and depth of Kirk's intellectual project by gathering together forty-four of the most masterful of Kirk's essays, along with a unique chronology told in Kirk's own words and a substantial introduction that articulates the deep humanism that animated Kirk's philosophy. The result is a carefully assembled volume that gives us a fuller picture of an extraordinary man and writer, one whose labors had, and continue to have, remarkable repercussions on the American literary and political landscape.
- Contents:
- Russell Amos Kirk: A Composite Chronicle XXVII
- I The Idea of Conservatism
- What Is Conservatism? 4
- The Dissolution of Liberalism 23
- Ten Exemplary Conservatives 32
- Why I Am a Conservative 42
- II Our Sacred Patrimony
- The Law and the Prophets 50
- What Did Americans Inherit from the Ancients? 80
- The Light of the Middle Ages 91
- Civilization Without Religion? 106
- The Rarity of the God-Fearing Man 115
- The Necessity for a General Culture 124
- III Principles of Order
- Edmund Burke: A Revolution of Theoretic Dogma 138
- The Prescience of Tocqueville 154
- T. S. Eliot's Permanent Things 166
- Eric Voegelin's Normative Labor 176
- IV The Moral Imagination
- The Moral Imagination 206
- Normative Art and Modern Vices 219
- A Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale 240
- Who Knows George Gissing? 245
- Wyndham Lewis's First Principles 256
- T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land 269
- V Places and People
- Reflections of a Gothic Mind 286
- Eigg, in the Hebrides 305
- A House in Mountjoy Square 319
- The Architecture of Servitude and Boredom 324
- Criminal Character and Mercy 334
- VI The Drug of Ideology
- The Drug of Ideology 348
- The Errors of Ideology 365
- Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries 373
- Can Virtue Be Taught? 383
- VII Decadence and Renewal in Education
- The Conservative Purpose of a Liberal Education 398
- The American Scholar and the American Intellectual 408
- The Intemperate Professor 418
- Teaching Humane Literature in High Schools 434
- VIII The American Republic
- The Framers: Not Philosophes but Gentlemen 450
- The Constitution and the Antagonist World 461
- John Randolph of Roanoke: The Planter-Statesman 472
- Orestes Brownson and the Just Society 492
- Woodrow Wilson and the Antagonist World 502
- IX Conservators of Civilization
- The Conservative Humanism of Irving Babbitt 514
- Paul Elmer More on Justice and Faith 525
- George Santayana Buries Liberalism 534
- The Humane Economy of Wilhelm Ropke 543
- Max Picard: A Man of Vision in Our Time 550
- Epilogue: Is Life Worth Living? 561
- With Gratitude 641.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781933859019
- 9781933859026
- 1933859016
- 1933859024
- OCLC:
- 105052999
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