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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... defined , and to limit its power . Yet , the political conflicts of the seventeenth century also taught that purely formal limitations on government were insufficient in the real world of politics . Something more was needed , and that ...
... defined , and to limit its power . Yet , the political conflicts of the seventeenth century also taught that purely formal limitations on government were insufficient in the real world of politics . Something more was needed , and that ...
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... defined representative government as the appropri- ate mediator of that change . In his advocacy of a political model which saw society as a corporation suspended in history and evolv- ing over time , in his acceptance of political ...
... defined representative government as the appropri- ate mediator of that change . In his advocacy of a political model which saw society as a corporation suspended in history and evolv- ing over time , in his acceptance of political ...
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... defined its early character : " the first Whigs were , and had to be , a party , some- thing more highly organized and disciplined than a mere alliance or coalition of small and autonomous groups . They possessed , and re- quired ...
... defined its early character : " the first Whigs were , and had to be , a party , some- thing more highly organized and disciplined than a mere alliance or coalition of small and autonomous groups . They possessed , and re- quired ...
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... defined in terms of pleasure and pain , of an action actually occur , then the rationally established principle on which that action is based gains a measure of credit- ability . Locke maintained , " experience here must teach me what ...
... defined in terms of pleasure and pain , of an action actually occur , then the rationally established principle on which that action is based gains a measure of credit- ability . Locke maintained , " experience here must teach me what ...
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... Definition can raise any simple Idea which has not been before per- ceived by the Senses . " According to Hutcheson , the effects of these sensations are uniform among people , for " there does not seem to be any Grounds to believe such ...
... Definition can raise any simple Idea which has not been before per- ceived by the Senses . " According to Hutcheson , the effects of these sensations are uniform among people , for " there does not seem to be any Grounds to believe such ...
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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