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Over the last fifty years the life and work of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) has received sustained scholarly attention and debate. The publication of the complete correspondence in ten volumes and the nine volume edition of Burke's Writings and Speeches have provided material for the scholarly reassessment of his life and works. Attention has focused in particular on locating his ideas in the history of eighteenth-century theory and practice and the contexts of late eighteenth-century conservative thought. This book broadens the focus to examine the many sided interest in Burke's ideas primarily in Europe, and most notably in politics and aesthetics. It draws on the work of leading international scholars to present new perspectives on the significance of Burke's ideas in European politics and culture.

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Author:   Dr Martin Fitzpatrick (Independent Scholar, UK) ,  Professor Peter Jones (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.785kg
ISBN:  

9781441196651

ISBN 10:   144119665
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   12 January 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Preface List of Contributors Abbreviations Edmund Burke’s Life and Works: a Chronology Timeline: the Reception of Burke Introduction Peter Jones and Martin Fitzpatrick 1. The Reception of Burke in Ireland Martyn Powell 2. The Paradoxes of Edmund Burke’s Reception in America, 1757-1790 Mark Spencer 3. Burke and Rational Dissent Martin Fitzpatrick and Anthony Page 4. Some Nineteenth Century Appraisals of Burke's Reflections: From Sir James Mackintosh to John Morley Gregory Claeys 5. Edmund Burke, the French Revolution and his French Critics Jeremy Jennings 6. Burke and the Writings of Benjamin Constant C. P. Courtney 7. ‘The climacteric event in our history’: aspects of Burke’s Reception in France Norbert Col 8. An Ambivalent Conservatism. Edmund Burke in the Netherlands 1770-1870 Wessel Krul 9. The Reception of Edmund Burke’s Imperial Ideas Relating to India, or Burke, the Brahmin and the Hot-House Sunil Agnani 10. Did an Edinburgh Debate on Taste Delay Responses to Burke? Peter Jones 11. The Impact of Edmund Burke's Physiological Aesthetics in Medico-Philosophical Circles and Art Criticism, 1757-1840 Aris Sarafianos 12. Burke's Political and Aesthetic ideas in Spain: the view from the right? Lioba Simon Schuhmacher 13. The Reception of Edmund Burke’s Aesthetic Ideas in Italy: Translations as Thresholds of Interpretation Daniele Niedda 14. The Reception of the Enquiry in the German Language Area in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: August Gottlieb Meißner and Johann Gottfried Herder Tomáš Hlobil 15. The Reception of Edmund Burke’s Aesthetics in Hungary Piroska Balogh 16. Varieties of Old Regime Europe: Thoughts and Details on the Reception of Burke Reflections in Germany László Kontler Bibliographies Index

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Martin Fitzpatrick was formerly Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Associate at the Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, UK. Peter Jones is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he was also Director of the Institute for Advanced studies in the Humanities.

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