The Essential Russell Kirk by Panichas, George A. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Table of Contents Preface Russell Amos Kirk: A Composite Chronicle A Note on the Text I. The Idea of Conservatism

What Is Conservatism? The Dissolution of Liberalism Ten Exemplary Conservatives Why I Am a Conservative

II. Our Sacred Patrimony

The Law and the Prophets What Did Americans Inherit from the Ancients? The Light of the Middle Ages Civilization Without Religion? The Rarity of the God-Fearing Man The Necessity for a General Culture

III. Principles of Order

Edmund Burke:A Revolution of Theoretic Dogma The Prescience of Tocqueville T. S. Eliot’s Permanent Things Eric Voegelin’s Normative Labor

IV. The Moral Imagination

The Moral Imagination Normative Art and Modern Vices A Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale Who Knows George Gissing? Wyndham Lewis’s First Principles T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

V. Places and People

Reflections of a Gothic Mind Eigg, in the Hebrides A House in Mountjoy Square The Architecture of Servitude and Boredom Criminal Character and Mercy

VI. The Drug of Ideology

The Drug of Ideology The Errors of Ideology Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries Can Virtue Be Taught?

VII. Decadence and Renewal in Education

The Conservative Purpose of a Liberal Education The American Scholar and the American Intellectual The Intemperate Professor Teaching Humane Literature in High Schools

VIII. The American Republic

The Framers: Not Philosophes but Gentlemen The Constitution and the Antagonist World John Randolph of Roanoke:The Planter-Statesman Orestes Brownson and the Just Society Woodrow Wilson and the Antagonist World

IX. Conservators of Civilization

The Conservative Humanism of Irving Babbitt Paul Elmer More on Justice and Faith George Santayana Buries Liberalism The Humane Economy of Wilhelm Röpke Max Picard:A Man of Vision in Our Time

Epilogue: Is Life Worth Living? Bibliography Notes Index With Gratitude Copyright Page