The conservative mind : from Burke to Eliot / / Russell Kirk

• Autore: Kirk Russell
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Regnery Pub., [2001], c1985
• Edizione: 7th rev. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 535 p. )
• Disciplina: 320.52
• Soggetto topico: Conservatism - History; Political science - Philosophy
• Altri autori: KirkRussell
• Note generali: First published in 1953 under title : The conservative mind, from Burke to Santayana.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [515]-524) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Making of the Conservative Mind -- Foreword -- I: The Idea of Conservativism -- II: Burke and the Politics of Prescription -- 1. Burke's career -- 2. The radical systems -- 3. Providence and veneration -- 4. Prejudice and prescription -- 5. The rights of civil social man -- 6. Equality and aristocracy -- 7. The principle of order -- III: John Adams and Liberty Under Law -- 1. Federalists and Republicans -- 2. Alexander Hamilton -- 3. Fisher Ames' vaticinations -- 4. John Adams as psychologist -- 5. The aristocracy of nature -- 6. American constitutions -- 7. Marshall and the metamorphosis of federalism -- IV: Romantics and Utilitarians -- 1. Benthamism and Walter Scott -- 2. Canning and enlightened conservatism -- 3. Coleridge and conservative ideas -- 4. The triumph of abstraction -- V: Southern Conservatism: Randolph and Calhoun -- 1. Southern impulses -- 2. Randolph on the peril of positive legislation -- 3. The rights of minorities: Calhoun -- 4. The valor of the South -- VI: Liberal Conservatives: Macaulay, Cooper, Tocqueville -- 1. Burke's influence upon liberalism -- 2. Macaulay on democracy -- 3. Fenimore Cooper and a gentleman's America -- 4. Tocqueville on democratic despotism -- 5. Democratic prudence -- VII: Transitional Conservatism: New England Sketches -- 1. Industrialism as a leveller -- 2. John Quincy Adams and progress: his aspirations and his failure -- 3. The illusions of transcendentalism -- 4. Brownson on the conservative power of Catholicism -- 5. Nathaniel Hawthorne: society and sin -- VIII: Conservatism with Imagination: Disraeli and Newman -- 1. Marx's materialism -- and the fruits of liberalism -- 2. Disraeli and Tory loyalties -- 3. Newman: the sources of knowledge and the idea of education -- 4. The age of discussion: Bagehot. ; IX: Legal and Historical Conservatism: A Time of Foreboding -- 1. Liberalism and collectivism: John Stuart Mill, Comte, and positivism -- 2. Stephen on the ends of life and politics -- 3. Maine: status and contract -- 4. Lecky: illiberal democracy -- X: Conservatism Frustrated: America, 1865-1918 -- 1. The Gilded Age -- 2. James Russell Lowell's perplexities -- 3. Godkin on democratic opinion -- 4. Henry Adams on the degradation of the democratic dogma -- 5. Brooks Adams and a world of terrible energies -- XI: English Conservatism Adrift: The Twentieth Century -- 1. The end of aristocratic politics: 1906 -- 2. George Gissing and the Nether World -- 3. Arthur Balfour: his spiritual conservatism -- and the tide of socialism -- 4. The books of W. H. Mallock: a conservative synthesis -- 5. A dreary conservatism between wars -- XII: Critical Conservatism: Babbitt, More, Santayana -- 1. Pragmatism: the fumbling of America -- 2. Irving Babbitt's humanism: the higher will in a democracy -- 3. Paul Elmer More on justice and faith -- 4. George Santayana buries liberalism -- 5. America in search of ideas -- XIII: Conservatives' Promise -- 1. Radicalism's sickness -- 2. The new elite -- 3. Scholar confronts intellectual -- 4. The conservative as poet -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "It is inconceivable even to imagine, let alone hope for, a dominant conservative movement in America without Kirk's labor." -- William F. Buckley, Jr. Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind is one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American conservatism. Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, The Conservative Mind launched the modern American Conservative Movement when it was first published in 1953 and has become an enduring classic of political thought. The seventh revised edition features the complete text and an introduction by publisher Henry Regnery. A must-read.
• Titolo abbreviato (Periodici): CONSERVATIVE MIND: FROM BURKE TO ELIOT; THE CONSERVATIVE MIND
• Altri titoli varianti: Conservative Mind
• Titolo autorizzato: The conservative mind
• ISBN: 0-89526-171-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910159021403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.