332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
331 Pages
by
Routledge
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The eighteenth century remains contemporary more than 200 years later because the fundamental questions raised then about politics in both the American and French Revolutions still speak to us. The writings of Edmund Burke on these and other political events of his time are today acknowledged as the basis of modern conservative thought. This volume brings together an outstanding collection of... Read more
One: Burke and the Literary Imagination; 1: Coleridge’s Fragments on Burke; 2: Hazlitt’s Criticism of Burke; 3: Rhetoric; 4: Macaulay’s Comments on Burke; 5: Mr. Macaulay; 6: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time; 7: Burke and the Sense of Process; 8: Burke and the Fall of Language: The French Revolution as Linguistic Event; 9: The Politics of Taste; Two: Burke and Revolution; 10: Burke’s Conservative Revolution; 11: A Revolution Not Made, but Prevented; Three: Burke and Constitutional, Party Government; 12: The British Constitution: The Rule of Gentlemen; 13: Constitutional Government and Revolution; Four: Burke and the Radical Mind; 14: The Organic Society and Human Perfection; 15: Ireland, “Circumstances,” and Modern Anti-Communism; Five: Burke and the Conservative Mind; 16: Religion and Politics; 17: Burke and the Moral Imagination; 18: Burke and the Natural Law; 19: The Organic Premise; 20: Prescription of Government; 21: Sources of Conservatism
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Daniel E. Ritchie
