The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke
Author: David Dwan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2012-10-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107495652

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Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher. Yet his responses to specific problems - rebellion in America, the abuse of power in India and Ireland, or revolution in France - incorporated theoretical debates within jurisprudence, economics, religion, moral philosophy and political science. Moreover, the extraordinary rhetorical force of Burke's speeches and writings quickly secured his reputation as a gifted orator and literary stylist. This Companion provides a comprehensive assessment of Burke's thought, exploring all his major writings from his early treatise on aesthetics to his famous polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. It also examines the vexed question of Burke's Irishness and seeks to determine how his cultural origins may have influenced his political views. Finally, it aims both to explain and to challenge interpretations of Burke as a romantic, a utilitarian, a natural law thinker and founding father of modern conservatism.

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke
Author: David Dwan
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Release: 2018
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Edmund Burke is a key thinker in the history of modern political thought. His writings, speeches and actions reflect complex views on jurisprudence, politics, empire, aesthetics, rhetoric, religion and moral philosophy. This comprehensive Companion examines each facet of Burke's thought and concludes with an evaluation of his legacy and reputation.

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke is a key thinker in the history of modern political thought. His writings, speeches and actions reflect complex views on jurisprudence, politics, empire, aesthetics, rhetoric, religion and moral philosophy. This comprehensive Companion examines each facet of Burke's thought and concludes with an evaluation of his legacy and reputation.

A Note-Book of Edmund Burke

A Note-Book of Edmund Burke
Author: H. V. F. Somerset
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2011-06-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0521247063

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The 1957 book contributes greatly to our knowledge of the character and ideas of Burke.

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Author: Pamela Clemit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2011-02-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521516072

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The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.

Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology

Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology
Author: Tom Furniss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-01-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521055482

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This study develops a detailed reading of the interrelations between aesthetics, ideology, language, gender and political economy in two highly influential works by Edmund Burke: his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), and the Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). Tom Furniss's close attention to the rhetorical labyrinths of these texts is combined with an attempt to locate them within the larger discursive networks of the period, including texts by Locke, Hume and Smith. This process reveals that Burke's contradictions and inconsistencies are symptomatic of a strenuous engagement with the ideological problems endemic to the period. Burke's dilemma in this respect makes the Reflections an audacious compromise which simultaneously defends the ancien régime, contributes towards the articulation of radical thought, and makes possible the revolution which we call English Romanticism.

Revolutionary Writings

Revolutionary Writings
Author: Edmund Burke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2014-01-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521843936

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An accessible and annotated edition of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France with the first Letter on a Regicide Peace.

The Cambridge Companion to Husserl

The Cambridge Companion to Husserl
Author: Barry Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1995-05-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521436168

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Exploring the full range of Husserl's work, these essays reveal just how systematic his philosophy is. An underlying theme is resistance to the idea, current in much intellectual history, of a radical break between "modern" and "postmodern" philosophy, with Husserl as the last of the great Cartesians.

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke
Author: David Dwan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521183316

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This comprehensive and accessible Companion examines the life and writings of Edmund Burke, one of the eighteenth century's most influential thinkers.

The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith

The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith
Author: Knud Haakonssen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2006-03-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521779241

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Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith's system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Collectively, the essays take into account Smith's multiple contexts - Scottish, British, European, Atlantic; biographical, institutional, political, philosophical - and they draw on all of his works, including student notes from his lectures. Pluralistic in approach, the volume provides a contextualist history of Smith, as well as direct philosophical engagement with his ideas.