Edmund Burke: Appraisals and Applications

ISBN-13: 9781412862929 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 332 str.

Daniel E. Ritchie

Opis

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 interpretative essays on Burke, and serves as a basic introduction to this seminal thinker.A member of the British Parliament from 1766 to 1794, Edmund Burke had sympathized with the American War of Independence and argued for reform of British policy toward Ireland and India, but he surprised many of his friends by his early, vehement opposition to the French Revolution. This volume brings together assessments of these and other statements by Burke by contemporaries such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt, along with essays by Irving Babbitt and Russell Kirk, who established his significance for twentieth-century conservatism.This is a collection of the best, previously published interpretive essays on Burke. It will be of interest to all those interested in the philosophical roots of conservatism, in the history of political thought, in revolution, and in modern political ideologies.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Daniel E. Ritchie