1st Edition
Edmund Burke and the Revolt Against the Eighteenth Century A Study of the Political and Social Thinking of Burke, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey
By Alfred Cobban
Copyright 1960
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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This edition first published in 1960. The revival of interest in the thought of Burke was one of the justifications for the publication of a second edition of Professor Cobban’s study of the political and social ideas of Burke and his closest disciples, the Lake Poets.
Burke’s thought has both historical and permanent significance: fundamentally his works are as relevant today as when they... Read more
Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Note; 1. Fundamental Ideas of the Eighteenth Century 2. Burke and the Heritage of Locke 3. Burke: Basis of Political Theory 4. Burke and the Origins of the Theory of Nationality 5. Wordsworth and Nationality 6. The Political Philosophy of Coleridge 7. The Lake Poets and Social Reform 8. The State and Religion 9. The Revolt against the Eighteenth Century; Bibliographical
Biography
Alfred Cobban
