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The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

Russell Kirk

What do conservatives actually believe, and where do their ideas come from, starting with Burke?

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Author
Russell Kirk

Why read it

  • You will be able to explain conservative thought in its own terms rather than through its critics' caricature
  • You will be able to trace today's conservative arguments back through two centuries of thinkers who kept them alive
  • You will see why movements that reject tradition tend to splinter, according to the author

Who it is for

  • Readers who want to understand the right at its roots
  • Progressives curious what the other side really argues
  • Students of political thought and its history

Contents

  1. THE CONSERVATIVE MIND
  2. THE CONSERVATIVE MIND
  3. Seventh Revised Edition
  4. The Making of The Conservative Mind
  5. Foreword to the Seventh Revised Edition
  6. THE CONSERVATIVE MIND
  7. I
  8. II
  9. Burke and the Politics of Prescription
  10. III
  11. IV
  12. V
  13. VI
  14. VII
  15. VIII
  16. IX
  17. x
  18. XI
  19. XII
  20. XIII
  21. A Select Bibliography

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