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Entry: Postmodern, Not Hypermodern: Russell Kirk Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/postmodern_not_hypermodern_russell_kirk#14067 Post contents: <b>It would seem unlikely that a traditionalist thinker could find a comfortable sustenance today from the sales of his books and other writings.</b> It was never <i>all</i> that easy. I have the impression that Dr. Kirk was invited to write his syndicated column as a result of his singlehandedly reinventing or reviving the Gothic Romance genre. He got his start on the lecture circuit during the Goldwater campaign thanks to the political operatives of General Motors. He was never a neocon, but I don't think he did much to offend them either, at least for the first few decades of his fame. Was he fully postmodern? Not in the sense defined by his friend Canon Bell. He embraced Catholic Christianity as the foundation of our civilization, but his autobiography admits no need to participate in public worship or the rest of parish life. In this he resembles Richard Weaver. Is he postmodern in the sense used by critical theorists? I am not sure. He clearly rejects the "metanarrative" of the Whig interpretation of history, but I think his conservatism involves a metanarrative all its own... Sent at: 2008 07 24