Cover of The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

"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 Mindis 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 Mindlaunched the modern American Conservative Movement when it was first published in 1953 and has become an enduring classic of political thought.

Read more

The seventh revised edition features the complete text and an introduction by publisher Henry Regency.

A must-read.

Subject
politicsphilosophyhistoryeconomicseducation
Genre
historical fiction
Themes
politicshistoryreligion
Setting
USAbritishcollege
Audience
adult

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Suicide of the West Shares politics, philosophy, political philosophy
  2. The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 Shares politics, conservatism, philosophy
  3. The Meaning of Conservatism Shares politics, philosophy, conservatism
  4. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Shares politics, nonfiction, philosophy

“People who read The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Ideas Have Consequences
  2. The Quest For Community: A Study In The Ethics Of Order And Freedom (Ics Series In Self Governance)
  3. Witness
  4. Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays

“If you want more of the same (politics), start with these.”

  1. Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought
  2. A History of Political Theory
  3. Democracy: A Very Short Introduction
  4. Anarchism

“If it was the philosophy that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America
  2. Up from Liberalism
  3. Free onlineFree Notes on Democracy
  4. On Politics: A History of Political Thought From Herodotus to the Present

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
  2. The Death of Conservatism
  3. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
  4. The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008