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<p>&ldquo;Gerald Russello has given us a penetrating analysis of Kirk&rsquo;s thought, and of the increasingly contested elements of American conservatism. Even more impressive is Russello&rsquo;s nuanced discussion of the role various forms of human imagination have played in the construction of modernism and its successors. This book itself constitutes an important step toward a redeemed imagination and a full, moral postmodernism.&rdquo;&mdash;Bruce Frohnen, editor of American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia

In the pantheon of American conservative thinkers, Russell Kirk looms large as a tenacious critic of liberal modernity. In this provocative and illuminating study, Gerald Russello examines the philosophical and moral vision that animated Kirk's defiant antimodernism. Russello gives us a lucid and perceptive account of Kirk's carefully crafted traditionalism and of its surprising affinities with much of contemporary postmodernism. In a time of deepening flux across the intellectual landscape, Russello's volume enlarges our understanding of the complex character of American conservatism. --George H. Nash, author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America since 1945

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Gerald J. Russello is a Fellow of the Chesterton Institute at Seton Hall University and editor of University Bookman. He is the editor of Christianity and European Culture: Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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