Russell Kirk

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Russell Kirk

Russell Kirk (born 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. With his book The Conservative Mind , published in 1953, he significantly shaped American conservatism in the 20th century. In it he developed a framework for the conservative movement of the post-war era that had hitherto been rather amorphous. The book traces the development of conservative thinking in the Anglo-American tradition, paying particular attention to the ideas of Edmund Burke . Kirk was also seen as the main proponent of traditionalist conservatism. In 1989 he was honored with the Presidential Citizens Medal , the second highest civil honor in the USA.

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Political, historical and biographical works

  • John Randolph of Roanoke: A Study in American Politics (1951)
  • The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (1953) Living Political Legacy. Freedom of thought from 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)
  • Watchers at the Straight Gate (1984)
  • 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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personal data
SURNAME Kirk, Russell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political theorist, historian, and social critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Plymouth , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1994
Place of death Mecosta , Michigan