Essential Russell Kirk - Softcover

Russell Kirk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933859024 ISBN 13: 9781933859026

Publisher: ISI Books, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"The Essential Kirk lives up to its title." -The American Conservative "An excellent introduction to a great conservative mind." -National Review Online

About the Author:

Russell Kirk was one of the twentieth century's foremost men of letters. Besides The Conservative Mind, his more than thirty books included Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered, The Roots of American Order, Enemies of the Permanent Things, and Eliot and His Age. George A. Panichas is a moralist critic whose main concerns center on the relations between literature, culture, and society. He is the author of many books, including Joseph Conrad: His Moral Vision, The Critic as Conservator, and The Critical Legacy of Irving Babbitt, and the editor of The Simone Weil Reader. Panichas is also the editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review.

About this edition

• Publisher: ISI Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1933859024
• ISBN 13: 9781933859026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640