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 ...
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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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Near Fine. 1933859024. Large paperback, has tiny curls to the corners of the cover, excellent condition otherwise, the binding is clean and tight and the contents are fine, "This volume, the first anthology of his essays to be published, is addressed both to his loyal readership and to a younger generation to whose urgent concerns Kirk continues to speak"; 639 pages.
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I have read all of Russell Kirks books, but the Essential Russell Kirk allowed my mind to grow more intimate and knowledgeable concerning what a great conservative Russell Kirk is. Is because he lives on through everything that he has written. I would recommend the book to all fans of Russell Kirk or others who have not had the privilege to read any of his books.