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Russell Kirk

生年: October 19, 1918 – Plymouth, Michigan, United States

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Russell Kirk was an American political theorist, historian, and man of letters whose work centered on conservative thought, cultural criticism, and moral order. Best known for The Conservative Mind, he helped define postwar American conservatism and wrote more than thirty books, including The Roots of American Order and Eliot and His Age.

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Russell Kirk was born in Plymouth, Michigan, in 1918 and remained deeply shaped by Midwestern place, eventually rooting much of his adult life at Piety Hill in Mecosta. He studied at Michigan State College and then at Duke University, where his work on John Randolph of Roanoke led him toward Edmund Burke, the thinker who became the central intellectual influence on his mature outlook. After Army service in World War II and teaching at Michigan State, he went to the University of St. Andrews, where research on the lineage of British and American conservative thought earned him a doctor of letters. That manuscript became The Conservative Mind in 1953, the book that made him nationally prominent and helped define postwar American conservatism as a historical tradition rather than a merely partisan label. ((https://kirkcenter.org/about-us/about-russell-kirk/))

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The moral imagination aspires to the apprehending of right order in the soul and right order in the commonwealth
-The Moral Imagination
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The twentieth-century American conservative is concerned, first of all, with the regeneration of spirit and character
-Renewing the Moral Order in American Society
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Win or lose personally, if one lives a life of affirmation, he helps to redeem the time
-The Courage to Affirm
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Still it is not possible to know God unless one first knows himself
-The Rediscovery of Mystery
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Order is the first need of the soul
-Order, the First Need of All
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A great many are schooled; very few are educated
-The Loss of an Object
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Christian moral postulates are intricately woven into the fabric of the common law
-We Cannot Separate Christian Morals and the Rule of Law
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Decadence is a state of mind; belief is nearly everything
-Is America Decadent?
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We grow from kin to kind: a true nation is a family vastly extended
-The Little Platoon We Belong to in Society
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Literature is meant to rouse and fortify the living, to renew the contract of eternal society
-Literature and the Contract of Eternal Society

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