Bolingbroke: Political Writings

ISBN-13: 9780521443937 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 354 str.

Henry St. John Bolingbroke

Opis

Bolingbroke: Political Writings provides the first accessible, modernized and annotated texts of three of the most important works in eighteenth-century British political thought. These works, the Dissertation upon Parties, the letter "On the Spirit of Patriotism" and The Idea of the Patriot King together formed the first coherent platform of a political opposition movement in Anglo-American politics and influenced not only radicals in Britain, but the American Founding Fathers and the French Revolutionaries.

Recenzje

'Armitage's edition of Bolingbroke's political writings of the 1730s will be an essential help for all students of the history of ideas … The editorial quality of the volume, taken together with a comprehensive annotated bibliography and extensive bibliographical data on Viscount Bolingbroke, make sure that David Armitage's edition of Bolingbroke's political writings is a major achievement for CUP's Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought.' History

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Principal events in Bolingbroke's life; Further reading; Notes on texts; A Dissertation upon Parties (1733–34); 'On the Spirit of Patriotism' (1736); The Idea of a Patriot King (1738); Biographical Notes; Index of subjects; Index of proper names.