Decadence and Renewal in the Higher Learning
Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Education
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Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Education
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Author : James E. Person
Publisher : Madison Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1999-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1461700078
This first full-length treatment of Russell Kirk's life and accomplishments blends new biographical insights and critical perspectives about the author of the ground-breakingThe Conservative Mind.
Author : James V. Schall
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1681490412
Noting the widespread concern about the quality of education in our schools, Schall examines what is taught and read (and not read) in these schools. He questions the fundamental premises in our culture which do not allow truth to be considered. Schall lists various important books to read, and why.
Author : United States Air Force Academy. Library
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Education, Higher
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Author : W. Wesley McDonald
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0826262589
Russell Kirk, author of The Conservative Mind and A Program for Conservatives, has been regarded as one of the foremost figures of the post-World War II revival in conservative thought. While numerous commentators on contemporary political thought have acknowledged his considerable influence on the substance and direction of American conservatism, no analysis of his social and political writing has dealt extensively with the philosophical foundations of his work. In this provocative study, W. Wesley McDonald examines those foundations and demonstrates their impact on the conservative intellectual movement that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. Kirk played a pivotal role in drawing conservatism away from the laissez-faireprinciplesoflibertarianism and toward those of a traditional community grounded in a renewed appreciation of man's social and spiritual nature and the moral prerequisites of genuine liberty. In a humane social order, a community of spirit is fostered in which generations are bound together. According to Kirk, this link is achieved through moral and social norms that transcend the particularities of time and place and, because they form the basis of genuine civilized existence, can only be neglected at great peril. These norms, reflected in religious dogmas, traditions, humane letters, social habit and custom, and prescriptive institutions, create the sources of the true community that is the final end of politics. Although this study does not challenge Kirk's debts to a predominantly Catholic and Anglo-Catholic tradition of natural law, its focus is on his appeal to historical experience as the test of sound institutions. This aspect of his thought was essential to Kirk's understanding of moral, cultural, and aesthetic norms and can be seen in his responses to American humanists Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt and to English and American romantic literature.Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology is particularly relevant because of the growing interest in Kirk's legacy and the current debate over the meaning of conservatism. McDonald addresses both of those developments in the context of examining Kirk's thought, attempting to correct some of the inadequacies contained in earlier studies that assess Kirk as a political thinker. This book will serve as a significant contribution to the commentary on this fascinating figure.
Author : Michael L. Peterson
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2001-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0268161496
With All Your Mind makes a compelling case for the value of thinking deeply about education in America from a historically orthodox and broadly ecumenical Christian point of view. Few people dispute that education in America is in a state of crisis. But not many have posed workable solutions to this serious problem. Michael Peterson contends that thinking philosophically about education is our only hope for meaningful progress. In this refreshing book, he invites all who are concerned about education in America to "participate" in his study, which analyzes representative theories and practical strategies that reveal the power of Christian ideas in this vital area.
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Page : 970 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Education
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Author : Lee Edwards
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 2003-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780895260932
In this superb history, which includes portaits of many of the leading figures of the American intellectual conservative movement, Edwards recounts the rich fruits of their unremitting labors.
Author : James E. Person Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 081317547X
Russell Kirk (1918--1994) is renowned worldwide as one of the founders of postwar American conservatism. His 1953 masterpiece, The Conservative Mind, became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated movement and began a sea change in the nation's attitudes toward traditionalism. A prolific author and wise cultural critic, Kirk kept up a steady stream of correspondence with friends and colleagues around the globe, yet none of his substantial body of personal letters has ever been published -- letters as colorful and intelligent as the man himself. In Imaginative Conservatism, James E. Person Jr. presents one hundred and ninety of Kirk's most provocative and insightful missives. Covering a period from 1940 to 1994, these letters trace Kirk's development from a shy, precocious young man to a public intellectual firm in his beliefs and generous with his time and resources when called upon to provide for refugees, the homeless, and other outcasts. This carefully annotated and edited collection includes correspondence between Kirk and figures such as T.S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., Ray Bradbury, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Charlton Heston, Nikolai Tolstoy, Wendell Berry, Richard Nixon, and Herbert Hoover, among many others. Kirk's conservatism was not primarily political but moral and imaginative, focusing always on the relationship of the human soul in community with others and with the transcendent. Beyond the wealth of autobiographical information that this collection affords, it offers thought-provoking wisdom from one of the twentieth century's most influential interpreters of American politics and culture.