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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... argument to his case , and this addition proved fatal to his own position . He now claimed that the magistrate's right to rule is also , in part , based on the prior authorization of the governed themselves . Moreover , as the ...
... argument to his case , and this addition proved fatal to his own position . He now claimed that the magistrate's right to rule is also , in part , based on the prior authorization of the governed themselves . Moreover , as the ...
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... argument of the Two Tracts that morality is best considered as a subfield of law , and he now divided law into three categories : the divine law laid down and enforced by God ; the civil law enforced by government ; and the law of ...
... argument of the Two Tracts that morality is best considered as a subfield of law , and he now divided law into three categories : the divine law laid down and enforced by God ; the civil law enforced by government ; and the law of ...
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... argument quickly became the focus of a wide - ranging debate . In the field of aesthet- ics , where the controversy first came to Burke's attention , Locke's influence was both great and complex . Perhaps the primary effect of Locke's ...
... argument quickly became the focus of a wide - ranging debate . In the field of aesthet- ics , where the controversy first came to Burke's attention , Locke's influence was both great and complex . Perhaps the primary effect of Locke's ...
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... arguments fit the time well , for it met the public taste both for a psychological approach to the issues of aesthetics and for a loosen- ing of the straightjacket of neo - classicism.26 Students of eighteenth century aesthetics have ...
... arguments fit the time well , for it met the public taste both for a psychological approach to the issues of aesthetics and for a loosen- ing of the straightjacket of neo - classicism.26 Students of eighteenth century aesthetics have ...
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... argument stood in the first edition of the En- quiry , it was subject to the same difficulty concerning standards which had plagued Locke before him . Indeed , to the extent that Burke was more thoroughgoing in his sensationalism , the ...
... argument stood in the first edition of the En- quiry , it was subject to the same difficulty concerning standards which had plagued Locke before him . Indeed , to the extent that Burke was more thoroughgoing in his sensationalism , the ...
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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