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Russell Kirk

1918 - 1994

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Russell Amos Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an American political philosopher, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and author, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism. His 1953 book The Conservative Mind gave shape to the postwar conservative movement in the U.S. It traced the development of conservative thought in the Anglo-American tradition, giving special importance to the ideas of Edmund Burke. Kirk was considered the chief proponent of traditionalist conservatism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Russell Kirk has received more than 682,174 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Russell Kirk is the 4,540th most popular writer (down from 4,000th in 2019), the 6,116th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,418th in 2019) and the 489th most popular American Writer.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 3.55

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Notable Works

A program for conservatives
Conservatism
The Dark Descent
pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice Harbottle -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- The autopsy / Michael Shea -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman -- Belsen Express / Fritz Leiber -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant -- Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman -- pt. 2. The Medusa in the shield. The swords / Robert Aickman -- The roaches / Thomas M. Disch -- Bright segment / Theodore Sturgeon -- Dread / Clive Barker -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The monkey / Stephen King -- Within the walls of Tyre / Michael Bishop -- The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft -- Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens -- Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson -- My dear Emily / Joanna Russ -- You can go now / Dennis Etchison -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Three days / Tanith Lee -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Mackintosh Willy / Ramsey Campbell -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- pt. 3. A fabulous formless darkness. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- Seven American nights / Gene Wolfe -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- [Crouch End](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650699W/Crouch_End) / Stephen King -- Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The beautiful stranger / Shirley Jackson -- [The damned thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) / Ambrose Bierce -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood -- The Asian shore / Thomas M. Disch -- The hospice / Robert Aickman -- A little something for us tempunauts / Philip K. Dick.
Enemies of the Permanent Things
Civilization, Modern, Literature and society, Modern Civilization
Edmund Burke
Politics and government, Orators, Biography
The conservative mind
History, Philosophy, Conservatism
Russell Kirk's *The Conservative Mind* is 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 Mind* launched the modern American Conservative Movement when it was first published in 1953 and has become an enduring classic of political thought.
Dark Forces
American horror tales, paranormal fiction, Horror novel
Contains: The Late Shift by Dennis Etchison The Enemy by Isaac Bashevis Singer Dark Angel by Edward Bryant The Crest of Thirty-six by Davis Grubb Mark Ingestre: The Customer’s Tale by Robert Aickman Where the Summer Ends by Karl Edward Wagner The Bingo Master by Joyce Carol Oates Children of the Kingdom by T. E. D. Klein The Detective of Dreams by Gene Wolfe Vengeance Is. By Theodore Sturgeon The Brood by Ramsey Campbell The Whistling Well by Clifford D. Simak The Peculiar Demesne by Russell Kirk Where the Stones Grow by Lisa Tuttle The Night Before Christmas by Robert Bloch The Stupid Joke by Edward Gorey A Touch of Petulance by Ray Bradbury Lindsay and the Red City Blues by Joe Haldeman A Garden of Blackred Roses by Charles L. Grant Owls Hoot in the Daytime by Manly Wade Wellman Where There’s a Will by Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson Traps by Gahan Wilson [The Mist](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149144W/The_Mist) by Stephen King

Page views of Russell Kirks by language

Over the past year Russell Kirk has had the most page views in the with 69,782 views, followed by Portuguese (5,535), and Chinese (4,035). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Dutch (43,100.00%), Ukrainian (57.66%), and Pashto (49.30%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Russell Kirk ranks 4,540 out of 7,302Before him are M. Ageyev, Alexander Bek, Georges Courteline, Gamal El-Ghitani, Jovan Rajić, and Eliška Krásnohorská. After him are Źmitrok Biadula, Wilhelm Geiger, Mihály Csokonai, René Guillot, Sandra Brown, and David Mamet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Russell Kirk ranks 201Before him are Vladimir Dudintsev, Mutsuhiro Watanabe, John Bromwich, Peter Blau, San Yu, and Edward Van Dijck. After him are Said Mohamed Djohar, Charu Majumdar, Georges Berger, Rand Brooks, Zara Dolukhanova, and Gunder Hägg. Among people deceased in 1994, Russell Kirk ranks 220Before him are Raymond Scott, Karl-Heinz Metzner, Lew Hoad, Severino Minelli, Masayoshi Ito, and Gilbert Roland. After him are Dinah Shore, Avet Terterian, Helena Rasiowa, Sigmund Ruud, Augusts Voss, and Paul Anderson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Russell Kirk ranks 6,116 out of 20,380Before him are Sarah Shahi (1980), Timbaland (1972), Meg Tilly (1960), Harry Partch (1901), Emma Tillman (1892), and Samuel Garman (1843). After him are Kitty Winn (1944), Grace Bumbry (1937), Arsenio Hall (1956), Mare Winningham (1959), Will Rogers (1879), and Hoagy Carmichael (1899).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Russell Kirk ranks 489Before him are Delia Owens (1949), C. J. Cherryh (1942), Amy Lowell (1874), E. E. Smith (1890), Timothy Zahn (1951), and Norman Spinrad (1940). After him are Sandra Brown (1948), David Mamet (1947), Amiri Baraka (1934), Neal Stephenson (1959), Jack Canfield (1944), and Robert Greene (1959).