Bolingbroke and His Circle
Bolingbroke and His Circle

Author: Isaac Kramnick

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780801480010

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An exploration on Bolingbroke's influence on the politics and literature of the Augustan Age.

Bolingbroke's Political Writings
Bolingbroke's Political Writings

Author: Bernard Cottret

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-30

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1349258059

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In turn, Tory minister, Jacobite renegade, English philosopher and anti-minister, Bolingbroke has elicited mixed reactions from his compatriots, both contempories and historians. Bernard Cottret discusses here his political writings in the context of contemporary thought in England and France. His analyses of 'A' Dissertation upon Parties' and 'The Idea of a Patriot King' are supported by a full mid-eighteenth-century political thought.

Bolingbroke: Political Writings
Bolingbroke: Political Writings

Author: Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-09-11

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780521586979

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Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, was one of the most creative political thinkers in eighteenth-century Britain. In this volume, modernised and fully annotated texts of his most important political works, the Dissertation upon Parties, the letter, 'On the Spirit of Patriotism', and The Idea of the Patriot King, are brought together for the first time. Bolingbroke was the first major thinker to face the long-term economic and political consequences of the Glorious Revolution, particularly the creation of the first modern system of party politics. In these works he attempted to forge an ideology of opposition to attack the Whig oligarchy of Sir Robert Walpole. His analyses of constitutional government and the party system are still relevant to the dilemmas of modern democratic politics, as are his recommendations for a patriotic commitment to the common good and the necessity of a non-partisan executive.

Bolingbroke: Political Writings
Bolingbroke: Political Writings

Author: Henry Bolingbroke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-09-11

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1316583635

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Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke, was one of the most creative political thinkers in eighteenth-century Britain. In this volume, modernised and fully annotated texts of his most important political works, the Dissertation upon Parties, the letter, 'On the Spirit of Patriotism', and The Idea of the Patriot King, are brought together for the first time. Bolingbroke was the first major thinker to face the long-term economic and political consequences of the Glorious Revolution, particularly the creation of the first modern system of party politics. In these works he attempted to forge an ideology of opposition to attack the Whig oligarchy of Sir Robert Walpole. His analyses of constitutional government and the party system are still relevant to the dilemmas of modern democratic politics, as are his recommendations for a patriotic commitment to the common good and the necessity of a non-partisan executive.

The Persistence of Party
The Persistence of Party

Author: Max Skjönsberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-01-28

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1108899048

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Political parties are taken for granted today, but how was the idea of party viewed in the eighteenth century, when core components of modern, representative politics were trialled? From Bolingbroke to Burke, political thinkers regarded party as a fundamental concept of politics, especially in the parliamentary system of Great Britain. The paradox of party was best formulated by David Hume: while parties often threatened the total dissolution of the government, they were also the source of life and vigour in modern politics. In the eighteenth century, party was usually understood as a set of flexible and evolving principles, associated with names and traditions, which categorised and managed political actors, voters, and commentators. Max Skjönsberg thus demonstrates that the idea of party as ideological unity is not purely a nineteenth- or twentieth-century phenomenon but can be traced to the eighteenth century.