{"product_id":"enemies-of-the-permanent-things","title":"Enemies of the Permanent Things","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Russell Kirk\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the 1960s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003c\/b\u003e Russell Kirk lectured and debated on many college campuses, ably defending traditional ideas against various liberal and radical adversaries. \u003ci\u003eEnemies of the Permanent Things\u003c\/i\u003e, first published in \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e1969\u003c\/span\u003e, is the most significant extended meditation on culture and politics to come out of the rough and tumble of those years. As such, it is an invaluable document, articulating the response of a critical witness to the radically anti-authoritarian turn taken by the intellectual elite in that destructive decade.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eKirk defines “the permanent things” (a phrase borrowed from T. S. Eliot) as the unchanging norms of human nature. In a healthy society, Kirk argues, individuals will attempt to live by these permanent standards of moral action, and the laws of the land will give support to citizens as they make that attempt. Focusing on literature as well as on politics, Kirk sets forth and defends those inalterable truths of human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eConservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things. \u003c\/i\u003e(T. S. Eliot)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRussell Kirk \u003c\/b\u003e(1918–1994) is acknowledged as the founder of the intellectual conservative movement in modern America. From his family home in rural Michigan, Kirk sent forth a multitude of writings on political philosophy, literature, education, and history. His bibliography includes nearly three thousand newspaper columns, hundreds of journal articles, and twenty-six books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin G. Lockerd\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Grand Valley State University, where he has received the Alumni Association’s Outstanding Educator Award. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAethereal Rumours: T. S. Eliot’s Physics and Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sacred Marriage: Psychic Integration in “The Faerie Queene,”\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition. Lockerd has served as President of the T. S. Eliot Society and is a Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback: \u003c\/strong\u003e360pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1944418151\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100027085167,"sku":"978-1944418151","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1514.jpg?v=1781124514","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/enemies-of-the-permanent-things","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}