Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 167 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780826429780
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9781282876934
Serie:
Major conservative and libertarian thinkers v. 6
Inhalt:
Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers provides comprehensive accounts of the works of seminal conservative thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions - the first series of its kind. Even the selection of thinkers adds another aspect to conservative thinking, including not only theorists but also thinkers in literary forms and those who are also practitioners. This volume includes an intellectual biography, historical context, critical exposition on Burke's work, reception and influence, contemporary relevance, bibliography including references to electronic resources
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Title Page ; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Chapter 1: Edmund Burke: The Contradictions of Benevolence; Birth and Name, Background and Religion; Ambiguity and Ambivalence, Religious and National: Jane Nugent; Preamble to Politics: The Annual Register,Dublin, Dr Johnson; Burke at the Centre of Politics: Tory and WhigDisarray in the 1760s; The House at Beaconsfield and Thoughts on the Causes of Present Discontents; Burke and Empire: The Centre of His Life and Work; Knowledge with and without Experience: The Status of Burke's Opinions
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Burke on Ireland and the English/British ConnectionBurke, England and Ireland, Some Further Considerations; Burke and Relations with the North AmericanSettlements; Burke and India, the East India Company andWarren Hastings; The Jacobin Menace: Burke's Opposition to the Revolution in France; Burke, Enlightenment and Revolution:A Case of Mixed Feelings; Burke versus Constant on the Revolution; Burke's Views on Property; Burke, Reform and Revolution; Burke's Critics and His Enthusiasts; Burke and the De-sanctification of Humanity; Chapter 2: Genial Olympian: Burke and His Opinions*; Introduction
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Political Themes and Contentions: What Burke FavouredThe Aristocratic Mode of Governance; Burke Also Admired the Way the English Aristocracy Recruited from Below; Burke as an Empire Enthusiast; Burke as a Conservative Reformer; Sound Enterprise and Bad Practice:The End/Means Distinction in Burke; Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet: Three Voices of the French Enlightenment; From the Men to the Project and from the Project to Its Politics; Burke's Religion: An Element of Dissembling?; Burke on Providence, Further Considered; Enlightenment, Human Loss and Burke's Christianity
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Age and Achievement: Burke's Writings in Chronological OrderThe French Revolution: A Summary Account; The French Revolution as the 'Crucial Event of Modern History'; Burke's English Anxieties over French Events; The Drive to Evil is Dominated by a Section of the Educated Classes; Burke's Religious Anxiety at the Turn of Events; The Political and Moral Arguments of Reflections; Burke's Extraordinary Perspicacity; The Characteristic Facts of A Priori Thinking; Politics and Divine Providence; Enlightenment Notions of the Natural and the Unnatural
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Post Reflections Writing: Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)Burke's Christian Politics Re-emphasized; Burke, Respect for Our Ancestors and the Need for Hierarchy; Burkean Polemic and Rhetoric and the Enlightenment; For Burke, Mercy and Justice Are Inseparable; Burke's Preference for Landed Wealth; The Intellectual Force of Burke's Political Views; The Enlightenment Is Not Homogenous and Should Not Be Airily Dismissed; The Enlightenment, Subtraction and Abstraction: Some General Discussion; The Dangers of Mere Words; Burke as a Teacher
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Chapter 3: Great Acclaim, Some Derision and Much Controversy: How Burke Has Been Received
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781441194114
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0826429785
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780826429780
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Edmund Burke
Sprache:
Englisch
