Political Writings

ISBN-13: 9780865972759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 526 str.

Samuel Johnson

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This volume contains 24 of Samuel Johnson's essays on the great social, economic and political issues of his time. These include Taxation No Tyranny, in which Johnson defended the British Crown against the American revolutionaries, An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain, Thoughts on the Coronation of King George III, and The Patriot, which is one of Johnson's principal writings during the American Revolution. In his introduction, Donald J. Greene advises that it may help to understand Johnson's political thinking if we view it in the tradition of what might be called sceptical (or radical or empirical) conservatism, the essential feature of which is distrust of grandiose a priori theory and dogma as the basis for political action.