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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... principle early spokesman for the Romantic “ re- volt " against the Enlightenment.7 If the students of Burke's thought cannot agree , those who study his political career do little better . Frank O'Gorman largely rejects the claims for ...
... principle early spokesman for the Romantic “ re- volt " against the Enlightenment.7 If the students of Burke's thought cannot agree , those who study his political career do little better . Frank O'Gorman largely rejects the claims for ...
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... principles solidly based on the dictates of experience and history . As he put it , " the science of constructing a commonwealth , or renovating it , or reforming it , is , like every other experimental science , not to be taught a ...
... principles solidly based on the dictates of experience and history . As he put it , " the science of constructing a commonwealth , or renovating it , or reforming it , is , like every other experimental science , not to be taught a ...
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... principles better to suit those changes which have successively happened in the circum- stances of the nation or in ... principles from being carried as far as , taken by itself , and theoretically , it would go . " 39 Moreover , good ...
... principles better to suit those changes which have successively happened in the circum- stances of the nation or in ... principles from being carried as far as , taken by itself , and theoretically , it would go . " 39 Moreover , good ...
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... principles at work , it would be a serious error to ignore the immediate altogether . II It will , of course , require the remainder of this book to present my argument in full detail , but an outline of that argument would , perhaps ...
... principles at work , it would be a serious error to ignore the immediate altogether . II It will , of course , require the remainder of this book to present my argument in full detail , but an outline of that argument would , perhaps ...
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... principle . Burke believed that governmental social and economic policy should be based on pragmatic and prudential considerations and not on some concept of economic " laws . " Chapters 6 and 7 form the pivot of my argument as a whole ...
... principle . Burke believed that governmental social and economic policy should be based on pragmatic and prudential considerations and not on some concept of economic " laws . " Chapters 6 and 7 form the pivot of my argument as a whole ...
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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