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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... reformist and empirical aspects of Burke's thought . Therefore , some advocates of the approach , Burleigh Wilkens , for example , offer a softer version of the thesis , or even , as 1 Introduction: The Significance of Edmund Burke.
... reformist and empirical aspects of Burke's thought . Therefore , some advocates of the approach , Burleigh Wilkens , for example , offer a softer version of the thesis , or even , as 1 Introduction: The Significance of Edmund Burke.
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... example , deem- phasizes the discussion of Burke's philosophical roots and insists that Burke should be understood as a defender of early capitalism . Macpherson thus attributes the continuing interest in Burke to his being the first ...
... example , deem- phasizes the discussion of Burke's philosophical roots and insists that Burke should be understood as a defender of early capitalism . Macpherson thus attributes the continuing interest in Burke to his being the first ...
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... example , Kishlansky has suggested that in England the meaning of so basic a feature of representative insti- tutions and practices as parliamentary elections changed exten- sively during the seventeenth century , as a process of ...
... example , Kishlansky has suggested that in England the meaning of so basic a feature of representative insti- tutions and practices as parliamentary elections changed exten- sively during the seventeenth century , as a process of ...
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... example , he must support a politics based on the reconciliation of interests . Burke wrote of the English constitution : " there is a perpetual treaty and compromise going on , sometimes openly , sometimes with less observation , " and ...
... example , he must support a politics based on the reconciliation of interests . Burke wrote of the English constitution : " there is a perpetual treaty and compromise going on , sometimes openly , sometimes with less observation , " and ...
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... example , most of Burke's major early political works were , in fact , produced during two waves of party activity . The first , in the late 1760s and early 1770s , saw many of Burke's most radical statements about parlia- mentary ...
... example , most of Burke's major early political works were , in fact , produced during two waves of party activity . The first , in the late 1760s and early 1770s , saw many of Burke's most radical statements about parlia- mentary ...
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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