Edmund Burke
Subtitle: Appraisals and Applications
By: Daniel E. Ritchie
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9781351316965
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, One Burke and the Literary Imagination --; title: chapter 1 Coleridge's Fragments on Burke  -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: chapter 2 Hazlitt's Criticism of Burke  -- William Hazlitt; title: chapter 3 Rhetoric  -- Thomas De Quincey; title: chapter 4 Macaulay's Comments on Burke  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay; title: chapter 5 Mr. Macaulay  -- Walter Bagehot; title: chapter 6 The Function of Criticism at the Present Time  -- Matthew Arnold; title: chapter 7 Burke and the Sense of Process  -- Walter Jackson Bate; title: chapter 8 Burke and the Fall of Language: The French Revolution as Linguistic Event  -- Steven Blakemore; title: chapter 9 The Politics of Taste  -- Christopher Reid; title: part, Two Burke and Revolution --; title: chapter 10 Burke's Conservative Revolution  -- George Watson; title: chapter 11 A Revolution Not Made, but Prevented  -- Russell Kirk; title: part, Three Burke and Constitutional, Party Government --; title: chapter 12 The British Constitution: The Rule of Gentlemen  -- Harvey Mansfield; title: chapter 13 Constitutional Government and Revolution  -- Alexander Bickel; title: part, Four Burke and the Radical Mind --; title: chapter 14 The Organic Society and Human Perfection  -- Raymond Williams; title: chapter 15 Ireland, "Circumstances," and Modern Anti-Communism  -- Conor Cruise O'Brien; title: part, Five Burke and the Conservative Mind --; title: chapter 16 Religion and Politics  -- John MacCunn; title: chapter 17 Burke and the Moral Imagination  -- Irving Babbitt; title: chapter 18 Burke and the Natural Law  -- Peter J. Stanlis; title: chapter 19 The Organic Premise  -- Gerald W. Chapman; title: chapter 20 Prescription of Government  -- Francis Canavan; title: chapter 21 Sources of Conservatism -- Robert Nisbet.