This page is intended to provide easily accessible support for those generally interested in the Catholic thinker, Russell Kirk, and more especially for those following the online course about him. (The course ran from August to October 2016 but can be followed at any time from the links below.)
Links to course posts:
Note that although I have described this as a 'course', anyone is free to join in at any time and to engage with the materials without any formal registration. (Think of it as a course of blogposts!) Please feel free to add any comments in the comments boxes at any stage. (You can also contact me, Dr Stephen Watt, by email sjwattATaol.com.)
Introduction here
Week 1 here
Week 2 here
Week 3 here
Week 4 here
Week 5 here
Week 6 here
Week 7 here
Week 8 here
Week 9a here
Week 9b here
Week 10 here
Final week here
Further reading:
Detailed suggestions for further reading can be found in the above blogposts.
Turning to general suggestions for further reading, Kirk is well served by online sources. Papers by and on Kirk can be found (among others) at:
The Imaginative Conservative here
The University Bookman here
Stormfields (run by Bradley Birzer, Kirk's biographer) here
The Wikipedia article on Kirk gives a good overview of his life and influence here (as well as further links to online Kirkiana).
Finally, for those who prefer paper rather than online material, I would recommend the following as starting points:
The Essential Russell Kirk -an excellent and full selection of Kirk's writings (Amazon UK)
Russell Kirk: American Conservative by Bradley J. Birzer -indispensable biography (Amazon UK)
The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk by Gerald J. Russello -very helpful analysis of key concepts in Kirk (Amazon UK)
Ancestral Shadows: an Anthology of Ghostly Tales -a collection of Kirk's ghost stories (Amazon UK)
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George Nash - the standard work on conservatism in America locates Kirk within the wider post-war movement (Amazon UK)
[Completed 11 October 2016]
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