Edmund Burke
Subtitle: the Enlightenment and Revolution
By: Peter Stanlis
Edition: First edition.
Series: The Library of Conservative Thought
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781351316767; 9781351316750; 9781351316736
Subjects: Conservatism; History; Enlightenment; Conservatisme; Histoire; Siècle des Lumières; Enlightenment (18th-century western movement); Reflections on the revolution in France (Burke, Edmund)
Description: "Two centuries after Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France, his name and reputation stand alongside Locke, Montesquieu, and Hume - the other still-cited grand political thinkers of the eighteenth century. For those great nations that have fallen into what Burke called "the antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion and unavailing sorrow," the work of Burke supplies that sense of order, justice and freedom the present age seems to require. This volume by Peter Stanlis has grown out of almost four decades of studying Burke. Today, Professor Stanlis is called by Russell Kirk "the leading American authority on the political thought of the great conservative reformer." The book is divided into three categories: Burke on law and politics; Burke's criticism of Enlightenment rationalism and sensibility; and Burke's theory of revolution and critique of the English revolution of 1688. Stanlis' reasons' for linking Burke to the English Revolution rather than the later, and admittedly more decisive American and French Revolutions of his own time, is that for Burke, that earlier event was the normative pivot for judging how to make important changes in civil society. Indeed, even in his writings on the contemporary revolutions of his time, . Stanlis reminds us that Burke interpreted revolutionary events in France and Americas through the prism of the bloodless Revolution of 1688"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, One Burke's Political Philosophy  -- Peter J. Stanlis Russell Kirk; title: chapter 1 Burke and the Moral Natural Law  -- Peter J. Stanlis Russell Kirk; title: chapter 2 Burke and the Law of Nations  -- Peter J. Stanlis Russell Kirk; title: chapter 3 Burke the Perennial Political Philosopher  -- Peter J. Stanlis Russell Kirk; title: part, Two Burke's Critique of the Enlightenment  -- Peter J. Stanlis Russell Kirk; title: chapter 4 Burke and the Rationalism of the Enlightenment  -- Peter J. Stanlis Russell Kirk; title: chapter 5 Burke and the Sensibility of Rousseau  -- Peter J. Stanlis Russell Kirk; title: part, Three Burke and Revolution  -- Peter J. Stanlis Russell Kirk; title: chapter 6 Burke's General View of Revolution  -- Peter J. Stanlis Russell Kirk; title: chapter 7 Burke and the Revolution of 1688 -- Peter J. Stanlis Russell Kirk.