The eighteenth century remains contemporary more than 200 years
later because the fundamental questions raised then about politics
in both the American and French Revolutions still speak to us. The
writings of Edmund Burke on these and other political events of his
time are today acknowledged as the basis of modern conservative
thought. This volume brings together an outstanding collection of
interpretative essays on Burke, and serves as a basic introduction
to this seminal thinker. A member of the British Parliament from
1766 to 1794, Edmund Burke had sympathized with the American War of
Independence and argued for reform of British policy toward Ireland
and India, but he surprised many of his friends by his early,
vehement opposition to the French Revolution. This volume brings
together assessments of these and other statements by Burke by
contemporaries such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt,
along with essays by Irving Babbitt and Russell Kirk, who
established his significance for twentieth-century conservatism.
This is a collection of the best, previously published interpretive
essays on Burke. It will be of interest to all those interested in
the philosophical roots of conservatism, in the history of
political thought, in revolution, and in modern political
ideologies.
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