This highly readable book offers a contemporary interpretation of the political thought of Edmund Burke, drawing on his experiences to illuminate and address fundamental questions of politics and society that are of particular interest today. For Burke, one s imaginative context provides meaning and is central to judgment and behavior. Many of Burke s ideas can be brought together around his concept of the moral imagination, which has received little systematic treatment in the context of Burke s own experience.

In "Edmund Burke for Our Time," Byrne asserts that Burke s politics is...