The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke

Author: David Bromwich

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-05-06

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0674729706

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This biography of statesman Edmund Burke (1730–1797), covering three decades, is the first to attend to the complexity of Burke’s thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. David Bromwich reads Burke’s career as an imperfect attempt to organize an honorable life in the dense medium he knew politics to be.

Edmund Burke's Irish Identities
Edmund Burke's Irish Identities

Author: Seán Patrick Donlan

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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Edmund Burke was an orator, writer, British statesman, and opponent of the revolution in France. This collection of essays focuses on Burke's complex relationship to his native Ireland. It brings together 13 authors, all established experts and young scholars, from a variety of viewpoints and disciplines.

Perspectives on Political Parties
Perspectives on Political Parties

Author: S. Scarrow

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-10-03

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0230107400

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Perspectives on Political Parties is a collection of primary documents that show the changing understandings of partisan politics during the nineteenth century, the first era in which parties played a central role in governing. The texts taken from British, American, German and French publication, speak to today's students and scholars of history and political science by showing the deep roots of still-current debates about representative democracy and mass politics. The reader is designed to fill a hole in contemporary teaching and scholarship by assembling hard to access sources that form the basis of modern debates about parties.

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke
The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke

Author: David Dwan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-22

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1107495652

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Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher. Yet his responses to specific problems - rebellion in America, the abuse of power in India and Ireland, or revolution in France - incorporated theoretical debates within jurisprudence, economics, religion, moral philosophy and political science. Moreover, the extraordinary rhetorical force of Burke's speeches and writings quickly secured his reputation as a gifted orator and literary stylist. This Companion provides a comprehensive assessment of Burke's thought, exploring all his major writings from his early treatise on aesthetics to his famous polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. It also examines the vexed question of Burke's Irishness and seeks to determine how his cultural origins may have influenced his political views. Finally, it aims both to explain and to challenge interpretations of Burke as a romantic, a utilitarian, a natural law thinker and founding father of modern conservatism.

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.