This volume also includes excerpts from his letters and an informative Introduction surveying Burke's life, ideas, and his reception and influence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Brian R. Clack’s introduction offers a compelling overview of the text and explores the consistency and coherence of Burke’s views on revolution.
The Routledge Classics edition presents the authoritative text of the first critical edition of Burke’s essay ever published, including a substantial critical and historical commentary. Edmund Burke (1729–1797).
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
"Originally published: Chicago : Regnery Gateway, 1963. Includes bibliographical references (p. [699]-702). This is the most comprehensive anthology of works and speeches by the statesman and political philosopher Edmund Burke (1729-1797).
However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also one of the first major works in European literature on the ...