Russell Kirk

Russell Kirk (* October 19, 1918 in Plymouth, Michigan, † April 29, 1994 in Mecosta, Michigan) was an American political theorist, historian, social critic, moralist, literary critic and author. Through his 1953 book, The Conservative Mind, he significantly shaped the American conservatism of the 20th century. He developed it as a scaffold for the hitherto somewhat amorphous existing conservative movement of the postwar era. The book traces the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, where especially the ideas of Edmund Burke to be considered. Kirk was also considered the chief representative of traditionalist conservatism. He was honored with the Presidential Citizens Medal in 1989, the second highest civilian award of the USA.

Bibliography

Political, historical and biographical works

  • John Randolph of Roanoke: A Study in American Politics (1951 )
  • The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953 ) Political living heritage. Liberal ideas of Burke to Santayana 1790-1958.
  • Prospects for Conservatives (1954 )
  • Academic Freedom: An Essay in Definition (1955 )
  • Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: Essays of a Social Critic (1956 )
  • The American Cause (1957 )
  • The Library of Conservative Thought ( 30 volumes ) ( 1963-1993 )
  • Confessions of a Bohemian Tory (1963 )
  • The Political Principles of Robert A. Taft ( 1967) with James McClellan
  • Edmund Burke: A Genius Reconsidered (1967 )
  • Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormality in Literature and Politics ( 1969)
  • Eliot and His Age: TS Eliot 's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century (1971 )
  • The Roots of American Order ( 1974)
  • Russell Kirk: A Bibliography ( 1981)
  • The Portable Conservative Reader ( 1982)
  • The Wise Men Know What Wicked Things are Written on the Sky ( 1987)
  • Economics: Work and Prosperity (1988 )
  • America's British Culture (1993 )
  • The Politics of Prudence (1993 )
  • The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half- Century of Literary Conflict ( 1995)
  • Redeeming the Time (1996 )
  • Rights and Duties: Reflections on Our Conservative Constitution (1997)
  • The Essential Russell Kirk (2007)

Novels

  • Old House of Fear (1961 )
  • The Surly Sullen Bell: Ten Stories and Sketches, Uncanny or Uncomfortable (1962 )
  • A Creature of the Twilight: His Memorials (1966 )
  • The Princess of All Lands (1979 )
  • Lord of the Hollow Dark ( 1979)
  • Off the Sand Road: Ghost Stories, Volume One (2002)
  • What Shadows We Pursue: Ghost Stories, Volume Two (2003)
  • Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales ( 2004)
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