Russell Kirk: American Conservative

Kirk' s scholarship, particularly his important book The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana (Chicago, 1953), challenged the notion advanced by much of the postwar professoriat that the country's political philosophy, as a rule, trended liberal. Birzer, a historian at Hillsdale Coll...

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Published inJournal of Southern History Vol. 83; no. 4; pp. 1012 - 1013
Main Author Brown, David S.
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Houston SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 01.11.2017
Southern Historical Association
Subjects
Biographies
Birzer, Bradley J
Burke, Jeremy
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965)
Ideology
Novels
Philosophy
Politics
Rand, Ayn (1905-1982)
Scotland
Chicago Illinois
United Kingdom > UK
United States > US
Michigan
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Summary:Kirk' s scholarship, particularly his important book The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana (Chicago, 1953), challenged the notion advanced by much of the postwar professoriat that the country's political philosophy, as a rule, trended liberal. Birzer, a historian at Hillsdale College, has immersed himself in Kirk's oeuvre, reading not simply his subject's major writings but also Kirk's many opinion pieces, articles, and novels. The bulk of Birzer's work assays Kirk's quixotic quest to challenge the secularism of the twentieth century and create a Christian humanist movement in response to the major ideologies-liberalism, communism, and fascism-of that period.
ISSN:0022-4642
2325-6893