Kirk borrowed the term "moral imagination" from Edmund Burke, defining it as the that enables a person to see beyond private experience to the "right order" of the soul and society.
In his seminal work Eliot and His Age: T. S. Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century , Russell Kirk frames T.S. Eliot as the preeminent man of letters who used "moral imagination" to confront the spiritual and cultural decay of the 1900s. The Core Concept: Moral Imagination Eliot and his age : T.S. Eliot's moral imaginat...
: A delight in the perverse and subhuman, which Kirk saw in modern sensationalism and violence. Available Editions of the Report Kirk borrowed the term "moral imagination" from Edmund
: A 2nd edition ebook published by ISI Books (July 2023) is available at Barnes & Noble and PressReader . Eliot’s Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century ,
: Eliot used this imagination to describe the "abyss" society falls into when it rejects inner and outer order. Eliot vs. His Age