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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... BURKE The reputations of some political thinkers rise and fall with the ... saw him as a politician - philosopher , who grounded a cautious reformism on ... Burke always appealed to the natural law . What is more , by Natural Law Burke ...
... BURKE The reputations of some political thinkers rise and fall with the ... saw him as a politician - philosopher , who grounded a cautious reformism on ... Burke always appealed to the natural law . What is more , by Natural Law Burke ...
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... Burke's philosophical roots and insists that Burke should be understood as a defender of early capitalism ... saw as a political extremist and intellectual godfather to the French Revolution.11 According to Babbitt , Burke defended the ...
... Burke's philosophical roots and insists that Burke should be understood as a defender of early capitalism ... saw as a political extremist and intellectual godfather to the French Revolution.11 According to Babbitt , Burke defended the ...
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Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. logic of consent and participation tends toward universalism ... saw representative institutions , in this case their own colonial legislatures , as a means of gaining control of ...
Edmund Burke and the Politics of Progress James Conniff. logic of consent and participation tends toward universalism ... saw representative institutions , in this case their own colonial legislatures , as a means of gaining control of ...
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... Burke played a vital role in this process . I believe that Burke's greatest ... saw society as a corporation suspended in history and evolv- ing over time ... Burke provided a defense of representative institutions which also rendered ...
... Burke played a vital role in this process . I believe that Burke's greatest ... saw society as a corporation suspended in history and evolv- ing over time ... Burke provided a defense of representative institutions which also rendered ...
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... Burke thought of himself as a Whig . That meant , among other things , that when he turned to history , he saw it from a certain perspective . The Whig party had developed at the time of the Exclusion Crisis in the 1670s . As Jones ...
... Burke thought of himself as a Whig . That meant , among other things , that when he turned to history , he saw it from a certain perspective . The Whig party had developed at the time of the Exclusion Crisis in the 1670s . As Jones ...
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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