Russell Kirk / John M. Pafford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half title; Series Introduction; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Life of Russell Kirk; Early Years; Life in Academe; Scholar and Squire; Politics; Evening; 3 Russell Kirk's Beliefs; The Conservative Mind; Intellectual Influences; Education; Economics; Libertarianism; Neoconservatism; Foreign Policy; Multiculturalism; Kirk's Christianity; Church and State; Natural Law; Democracy, Aristocracy, andthe American Founding; Summation; 4 Reception of His Writings; Kirk vs. Jaffa; America's British Culture.

The Sword of ImaginationNegative Responses; Fiction; Epilogue; 5 The Relevance of Kirk; The Relevance of Kirk as Seen by Others; How and Why; Keeping Lit the Flame; Bibliography; Index.

Russell Kirk is widely regarded as the individual most responsible for the revival of conservative thought in the latter half of the twentieth century. Kirk's conservative philosophy was well-established with his magnum opus, The Conservative Mind, published in 1953, and remained constant until his death in 1994. His Christianity, though, grew from something seen as the foundation of Western Civilization to being also a personal faith. He became a Roman Catholic, drawn by its universality, its traditionalism, and his love for the woman he married. Although he believed in certain Catholic disti.

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