The Useful Cobbler: Edmund Burke and the Politics of ProgressNeither a polemic nor a highly specialized study, this book is a comprehensive assessment of Burke's political thought. Using evidence from such neglected sources as Burke's essays on history and law and making full use of his extensive correspondence, the author places Burke in the context of developments in a number of areas of eighteenth-century British intellectual life, ranging from philosophy to literature, and presents him as a key figure in the evolution of the theory and practice of representative government. |
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Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. softer version of ... Burke's philosophical roots and insists that Burke should be understood as a ... claims for Burke as a profound thinker , preferring in- stead to think of ...
Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. softer version of ... Burke's philosophical roots and insists that Burke should be understood as a ... claims for Burke as a profound thinker , preferring in- stead to think of ...
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Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. logic of consent and participation tends toward universalism ... claimed that the people constituted the only legitimate authority . Along this road , of course , lies mass ...
Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. logic of consent and participation tends toward universalism ... claimed that the people constituted the only legitimate authority . Along this road , of course , lies mass ...
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... Burke saw change , as such , as relatively neutral : some changes were good ... claimed that the Whigs were the descendants and representatives of a tra ... Burke's position on the British political in- stitutions of his time . Burke's ...
... Burke saw change , as such , as relatively neutral : some changes were good ... claimed that the Whigs were the descendants and representatives of a tra ... Burke's position on the British political in- stitutions of his time . Burke's ...
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... Burke's attempts to frame a con- sistent theory of political party as a force to unify men of goodwill . Burke was ... claims of many of the students of his thought , Burke did have a coherent theory of the Empire . As his speeches on ...
... Burke's attempts to frame a con- sistent theory of political party as a force to unify men of goodwill . Burke was ... claims of many of the students of his thought , Burke did have a coherent theory of the Empire . As his speeches on ...
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Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. standards , adequate ... Burke , following Hume , turned to history for a guide to morally sound po ... claimed to be either essential or indifferent for salvation . Moreover ...
Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. standards , adequate ... Burke , following Hume , turned to history for a guide to morally sound po ... claimed to be either essential or indifferent for salvation . Moreover ...
Contents
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The Whiggism of History and the History of Whiggism | 53 |
Burke on the Foundations and Nature of Government | 85 |
Burke on the Nature and Extent of State Authority | 113 |
The Politics of Trusteeship | 137 |
Political Parties and Their Uses | 161 |
The Decline and Fall of the Theory of Sovereignty | 185 |
The French Revolution and the Crisis of European | 215 |
Ireland India and the Deluge | 251 |
Notes | 275 |
Bibliography | 341 |
Index | 355 |
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