Russell Kirk S Concise Guide To Conservatism

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Gateway Editions
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781621578789

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Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism by Russell Kirk Pdf

The modern conservative intellectual movement began in 1953 with Russell Kirk’s groundbreaking book The Conservative Mind. Four years later, he published a pithy, wry, philosophical summary of what conservatism really means. Originally titled The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Conservatism, this little book was essentially a popular version of The Conservative Mind. Now, a century after its author’s birth, this neglected gem has been recovered. It remains what Kirk intended it to be: an accessible introduction to conservative ideas, especially for the young. With a new title and an introduction by the eminent intellectual historian Wilfred M. McClay, Russell Kirk’s Concise Guide to Conservatism arrives with uncanny timing. The movement that Kirk defined in 1953 is today so contested and fragmented that no one seems able to say with confidence what conservatism means. This book, as fresh and prophetic as the day it was published sixty years ago, is a reminder that no one can match Russell Kirk in engaging people’s minds and imaginations—an indispensable task in reviving our civilization.

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497608092

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The American Cause by Russell Kirk Pdf

The American Cause explains in simple yet eloquent language the bedrock principles upon which America's experiment in constitutional self-government is built. Russell Kirk intended "this little book" to be an assertion of the moral and social principles upholding our nation. Kirk's primer is an aid to reflection on those principles—political, economic, and religious—that have united Americans when faced with challenges and threats from the enemies of ordered freedom. In this new age of terrorism, Kirk's lucid and straightforward presentation of the articles of American belief is both necessary and welcome. Gleaves Whitney's newly edited version of Kirk's work, combined with his insightful commentary, make The American Cause a timely addition to the literature of liberty.

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064814471

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The Portable Conservative Reader by Russell Kirk Pdf

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.

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1388185156

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The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk Pdf

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk is arguably one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, The Conservative Mind launched the modern American Conservative Movement. A must-read. (Abridged edition)

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780895261717

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The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk Pdf

The book that launched the modern American conservative movement, now available in trade paperback.

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004265949

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Redeeming the Time by Russell Kirk Pdf

Here, Russell Kirk counsels the reader to direct his energies toward cultural renewal. Distilled in these pages are many of the central tenets of Kirk's brand of humane conservatism. Kirk discusses the recovery of real education, the dangers of our current social order, and today's cultural climate in general, and offers hopeful steps toward a restoration of our culture.

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781684516391

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The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk Pdf

What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk identifies the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called a "tale of five cities": Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. For an understanding of the significance of America in the twenty-first century, Russell Kirk's masterpiece on the history of American civilization is unsurpassed.

Author : Bruce Frohnen,Jeremy Beer,Nelson O. Jeffrey
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 1355 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497651579

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American Conservatism by Bruce Frohnen,Jeremy Beer,Nelson O. Jeffrey Pdf

“A must-own title.” —National Review Online American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference volume to cover what is surely the most influential political and intellectual movement of the past half century. More than fifteen years in the making—and more than half a million words in length—this informative and entertaining encyclopedia contains substantive entries on those persons, events, organizations, and concepts of major importance to postwar American conservatism. Its contributors include iconic patriarchs of the conservative and libertarian movements, celebrated scholars, well-known authors, and influential movement activists and leaders. Ranging from “abortion” to “Zoll, Donald Atwell,” and written from viewpoints as various as those which have informed the postwar conservative movement itself, the encyclopedia’s more than 600 entries will orient readers of all kinds to the people and ideas that have given shape to contemporary American conservatism. This long-awaited volume is not to be missed.

Author : Robert Nisbet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351526487

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Conservatism by Robert Nisbet Pdf

The essential concerns of conservatism are the same as those that motivated Nisbet's first and most influential book. The Quest for Community. In fact, Conservatism unites virtually all of Nisbet's work. In it, Nisbet deals with the political causes of the manifold forms of alienation that underwrite the human quest for community. The sovereign political state is more than a legal relationship of a superstructure of power, it is inseparable from its successive penetrations of man's economic, religious, kinship and local allegiances, and its revolutionary dislocations of established centers of power. Nisbet holds that although political philosophers are often conceived in terms of their views of the individual and the state, a more useful approach adds the factor of social groups or communities mediating between the individual and the state. Such groups comprise "society" the protection of which is the "sole object" of the conservative tradition, according to Nisbet. This conservative ideology arose in the West as a reaction to the French Revolution and its perceived impact upon traditional society. Edmund Burke was the first spokesman of the new ideology. In this book, Nisbet argues that modern conservatism throughout the West can be seen as a widening of Burke's indictment not only of the French Revolution, but of the larger revolution we have come to call modernity. From Edmund Burke and his contemporaries such as Bonald, de Maistre, Haller, and Savigny, down to T.S. Eliot, Christopher Dawson, Michael Oakeshott, Irving Babbit, Paul Elmer More, and Russell Kirk, the essential themes of political conservatism remained the same. They are centered upon history, tradition, property, authority, liberty and religion, and attack equally the political collectivism and radical individualism that have the same irrational outcomes. Nisbet makes the point that, at present, conservatism is also in a crisis, one created in large measure by mixing in the political arena economic liberalism and welfare state socialism - a lethal mix for conservative politics.

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351532204

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America's British Culture by Russell Kirk Pdf

It is an incontestable fact of history that the United States, although a multiethnic nation, derives its language, mores, political purposes, and institutions from Great Britain. The two nations share a common history, religious heritage, pattern of law and politics, and a body of great literature. Yet, America cannot be wholly confident that this heritage will endure forever. Declining standards in education and the strident claims of multiculturalists threaten to sever the vital Anglo-American link that ensures cultural order and continuity. In "America's British Culture", now in paperback, Russell Kirk offers a brilliant summary account and spirited defense of the culture that the people of the United States have inherited from Great Britain. Kirk discerns four essential areas of influence. The language and literature of England carried with it a tradition of liberty and order as well as certain assumptions about the human condition and ethical conduct. American common and positive law, being derived from English law, gives fuller protection to the individual than does the legal system of any other country. The American form of representative government is patterned on the English parliamentary system. Finally, there is the body of mores - moral habits, beliefs, conventions, customs - that compose an ethical heritage. Elegantly written and deeply learned, "America's British Culture" is an insightful inquiry into history and a plea for cultural renewal and continuity. Adam De Vore in "The Michigan Review" said of the book: "A compact but stimulating tract...a contribution to an over-due cultural renewal and reinvigoration...Kirk evinces an increasingly uncommon reverence for historical accuracy, academic integrity and the understanding of one's cultural heritage," and Merrie Cave in "The Salisbury Review" said of the author: "Russell Kirk has been one of the most important influences in the revival of American conservatism since the fifties. [Kirk] belongs to an

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : All Points Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781250170736

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Conservatism by Roger Scruton Pdf

“...one of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western politics, philosophy and culture I have ever read...the ideal primer for those who are new to conservative ideas...” —Richard Aldous, Wall Street Journal A brief magisterial introduction to the conservative tradition by one of Britain’s leading intellectuals. In Conservatism, Roger Scruton offers the reader an invitation into the world of political philosophy by explaining the history and evolution of the conservative movement over the centuries. With the clarity and authority of a gifted teacher, he discusses the ideology's perspective on civil society, the rule of law, freedom, morality, property, rights, and the role of the state. In a time when many claim that conservatives lack a unified intellectual belief system, this book makes a very strong case to the contrary, one that politically-minded readers will find compelling and refreshing. Scruton analyzes the origins and development of conservatism through the philosophies and thoughts of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith and Milton Friedman, among others. He shows how conservative ideas have influenced the political sector through the careers of a diverse cast of politicians, such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Disraeli, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He also takes a close look at the changing relationship between conservative politics, capitalism, and free markets in both the UK and the US. This clear, incisive guide is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Western politics and policies, now and over the last three centuries.

Author : A. Hancock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230120136

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Solidarity Politics for Millennials by A. Hancock Pdf

This book takes the political theory of intersectionality - the most cutting-edge approach to the politics of gender, race, sexual orientation, and class - and introduces it to the general public for the first time.

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-24
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : UOM:49015002778844

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Enemies of the Permanent Things by Russell Kirk Pdf

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0802839541

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The Sword of Imagination by Russell Kirk Pdf

Now available for the first time in a paperback edition, "The Swordof Imagination represents the capstone on the career of one ofAmerica's most influential conservative thinkers, Russell Kirk. This highly praised memoir, written dispassionately in thethird person, vividly portrays Kirk's intellectual life. Characterizedby verve, insight, and wit, the book ranges fully over the last halfof the twentieth century, pausing on such themes as Kirk's mentorsand opponents, the day's political figures, and those aspects of themodern world that he loved or despised. Throughout, readers find-- and are challenged by -- the conservative values, the "permanentthings, " for which Kirk became America's ardent champion.

Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Americans
ISBN : OCLC:1392383974

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Old House of Fear by Russell Kirk Pdf