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