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Betraktninger over revolusjonen i Frankrike
"Betraktninger over revolusjonen i Frankrike" ble utgitt i 1790, halvannet år etter stormingen av Bastillen. Den franske revolusjon var et viktig vannskille i moderne europeisk …
Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings
Amid the 18th centuryââ?¬â?¢s golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon, Burkeââ?¬â?¢s controversial mixture of conservative and …
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on …
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, …
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory …
The Portable Edmund Burke
The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the …
Genealogies of Orientalism
Orientalism, as explored by Edward Said in 1978, was a far more complex phenomenon than many suspected, being homogenous along the lines of neither culture nor time. Instead, it is …
Pre-Revolutionary Writings
This is the first collection of the writings of Edmund Burke which precede Reflections on the Revolution in France, and the first to do justice to the connections and breadth of …
Revolutionary Writings
Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France was the first sustained theoretical critique of the French Revolution; and is now recognised as the classic statement of modern …
A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful.
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
By the eighteenth century, the term 'sublime' was used to communicate a sense of unfathomable and awe-inspiring greatness, whether in nature or thought. The relationship of …
The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of the Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke
Originally published in 1923, this book presents a biographical account of Edmund Burke's early life and education. A transcript of the Minute Book of the Trinity College, Dublin …