Time and timeless: The historical imagination of Russell Kirk
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The work of historian Russel Kirk evoked a past from which guiding principles and individual models could be drawn. In The Conservative Mind, published in 1953 an intellectually formidable and respectable ancestry for conservative principles was established. He knew that history is made by individuals and was wary of abstractions, rather concentrating on specific individuals who altered history. Kirk tried to balance both the static and dynamic aspects of tradition, identifying it through essays and stories of certain places and events.
Publication Name: Modern Age
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0026-7457
Year: 1999
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The jurisprudence of Russell Kirk
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Russell Kirk in his works analyses the place of law in society and its philosophical and cultural bases. Kirk depicts natural law and justice as the bases of moral conduct. Order impels the rule of law which require citizens to adapt habits and dispositions to defined principles of state. Kirk asserts that the purpose of law is to keep peace and recourse to natural law should avoid bypassing legally constituted authority in the settlement of conflicts. The sources of law are precedent, statute and custom.
Publication Name: Modern Age
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0026-7457
Year: 1996
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The swords of imagination: Russell Kirk's battle with modernity
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Russell Kirk fought a lengthy moral, spiritual and cultural battle in the world of concepts and images. He regarded himself as a man of letters, using imagination in a number of different forms, including poetic, prophetic, historical and moral.
Publication Name: Modern Age
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0026-7457
Year: 2001
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