The Cambridge Companion To Edmund Burke
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Author | : David Dwan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2012-10-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107495652 |
Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher. Yet his responses to specific problems - rebellion in America, the abuse of power in India and Ireland, or revolution in France - incorporated theoretical debates within jurisprudence, economics, religion, moral philosophy and political science. Moreover, the extraordinary rhetorical force of Burke's speeches and writings quickly secured his reputation as a gifted orator and literary stylist. This Companion provides a comprehensive assessment of Burke's thought, exploring all his major writings from his early treatise on aesthetics to his famous polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. It also examines the vexed question of Burke's Irishness and seeks to determine how his cultural origins may have influenced his political views. Finally, it aims both to explain and to challenge interpretations of Burke as a romantic, a utilitarian, a natural law thinker and founding father of modern conservatism.
Author | : David Dwan |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
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Edmund Burke is a key thinker in the history of modern political thought. His writings, speeches and actions reflect complex views on jurisprudence, politics, empire, aesthetics, rhetoric, religion and moral philosophy. This comprehensive Companion examines each facet of Burke's thought and concludes with an evaluation of his legacy and reputation.
Author | : H. V. F. Somerset |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2011-06-09 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0521247063 |
The 1957 book contributes greatly to our knowledge of the character and ideas of Burke.
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Release | : 2018 |
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Edmund Burke is a key thinker in the history of modern political thought. His writings, speeches and actions reflect complex views on jurisprudence, politics, empire, aesthetics, rhetoric, religion and moral philosophy. This comprehensive Companion examines each facet of Burke's thought and concludes with an evaluation of his legacy and reputation.
Author | : Pamela Clemit |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2011-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521516072 |
The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.
Author | : F. P Lock |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2008-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191551562 |
Edmund Burke (1730-1797) was one of the most profound, versatile, and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. Born and educated in Dublin, he moved to London to study law, but remained to make a career in English politics, completing A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) before entering the political arena. A Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, his speeches are still read and studied as classics of political thought, and through his best-known work, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) he has continued to exercise a posthumous influence as `the father of conservatism'. This is the first full, scholarly biography of Burke for over a generation, to be completed in two volumes. The first volume covers the years between 1730-1784, and describes his Irish upbringing and education, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence. Lavishly illustrated, it provides an authoritative account of the complexity and breadth of Burke's philosophical and political writing and examines its origins in his personal experiences and the political world of his day. This outstanding book will be be required reading for anybody seeking a fuller understanding of eighteenth-century history, philosophy, and political thought.
Author | : Tom Furniss |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-01-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521055482 |
This study develops a detailed reading of the interrelations between aesthetics, ideology, language, gender and political economy in two highly influential works by Edmund Burke: his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), and the Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). Tom Furniss's close attention to the rhetorical labyrinths of these texts is combined with an attempt to locate them within the larger discursive networks of the period, including texts by Locke, Hume and Smith. This process reveals that Burke's contradictions and inconsistencies are symptomatic of a strenuous engagement with the ideological problems endemic to the period. Burke's dilemma in this respect makes the Reflections an audacious compromise which simultaneously defends the ancien régime, contributes towards the articulation of radical thought, and makes possible the revolution which we call English Romanticism.
Author | : Edmund Burke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2014-01-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521843936 |
An accessible and annotated edition of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France with the first Letter on a Regicide Peace.
Author | : Barry Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1995-05-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521436168 |
Exploring the full range of Husserl's work, these essays reveal just how systematic his philosophy is. An underlying theme is resistance to the idea, current in much intellectual history, of a radical break between "modern" and "postmodern" philosophy, with Husserl as the last of the great Cartesians.
Author | : Knud Haakonssen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2006-03-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521779241 |
Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith's system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Collectively, the essays take into account Smith's multiple contexts - Scottish, British, European, Atlantic; biographical, institutional, political, philosophical - and they draw on all of his works, including student notes from his lectures. Pluralistic in approach, the volume provides a contextualist history of Smith, as well as direct philosophical engagement with his ideas.