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• Preface-- Acknowledgements-- Editor's introduction-- Further reading-- Chronology-- Notes-- A note on the texts-- Reflections on the Revolution in France-- The first Letter on a Regicide Peace-- Appendix A (variant reading from A Regicide Peace)-- Index.
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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 conservatism. Reflections surveys the British political culture of traditionalism, gradualism and deference, and contrasts it with the French Revolutionaries' programme of appeal to abstract right, transformational change and popular agency. Ultimately Burke advocated a counterrevolutionary war and the restoration of the French monarchy. This accessible new edition brings together for the first time Burke's first and last published thoughts on the revolution including as it does the first Letter on a Regicide Peace; a work that has contributed to a particular view of international society. Featuring a comprehensive introduction and extensive annotations, Iain Hampsher-Monk's edition helps readers new to Burke to better understand the historical, political and philosophical context behind his writings, and the significance of contemporary and classical allusions.
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• Edmund Burke, Select Works Volume 1 ; Front Matter ; Title Page ; Copyright Details ; Table of Contents ; Editor's Foreword, p. ix ; Biographical Note, p. xv ; Editor's Note, p. xxi ; Introduction by E.J. Payne, p. 3 ; Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, p. 69 ; Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., on American Taxation, p. 157 ; Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, p. 221 ; Notes, p. 291.

• Composition and publication
• On taste
• The sublime and beautiful
• Influence of the enquiry
• Note on the text
• Burke's Enquiry.

Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton. 'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'- The Guardian Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of "the beautiful", Burke's subject here was the quality he uniquely distinguished as "the sublime"-an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an analysis that would go on to inspire some of the leading thinkers of the age, including Immanuel Kant and Denis Diderot. 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). A politician, philosopher and orator, Burke lived during a turbulent time in world history, which saw revolutions in America and France that inspired his most famous work, Reflections on the Revolution in France.
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• Introduction : Edmund Burke, the political actor thinking / Frank M. Turner
• Reflections on the revolution in France / Edmund Burke
• Edmund Burke: prophet against the tyranny of the politics of theory / Conor Cruise O'Brien
• Edmund Burke and the literary cabal: a tale of two enlightenments / Darrin M. McMahon
• Why American constitutionalism worked / Jack N. Rakove
• Democracy, social science, and rationality: reflections on Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France / Alan Wolfe.

"Reflections on the Revolution in France" was written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke's analysis of revolutionary change established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. This new edition of the "Reflections" presents Burke's famous text along with a historical introduction by Frank Turner and four critical essays by leading scholars. The volume sets the "Reflections" in the context of Western political thought, highlights its ongoing relevance to contemporary debates, and provides abundant critical notes, a glossary and a glossary-index to ensure its accessibility. Contributors to the book examine various provocative aspects of Burke's thought. Conor Cruise O'Brien explores Burke's hostility to "theory", Darrin McMahon considers Burke's characterization of the French Enlightenment, Jack Rakove contrasts the views of Burke and American constitutional framers on the process of drawing up constitutions, and Alan Wolfe investigates Burke, the social sciences, and liberal democracy.
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"Reflections on the Revolution in France" was written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. Edmund Burke's analysis of revolutionary change established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. This new edition of the "Reflections" presents Burke's famous text along with a historical introduction by Frank Turner and four critical essays by leading scholars. The volume sets the "Reflections" in the context of Western political thought, highlights its ongoing relevance to contemporary debates, and provides abundant critical notes, a glossary and a glossary-index to ensure its accessibility. Contributors to the book examine various provocative aspects of Burke's thought. Conor Cruise O'Brien explores Burke's hostility to "theory", Darrin McMahon considers Burke's characterization of the French Enlightenment, Jack Rakove contrasts the views of Burke and American constitutional framers on the process of drawing up constitutions, and Alan Wolfe investigates Burke, the social sciences, and liberal democracy.
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• ""Edmund Burke, The Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3 ""; ""Front Matter ""; ""Works Title Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Details ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Editor's Foreword, p. viii ""; ""Editor's Note, p. xi ""; ""Introduction by E.J. Payne, p. 3 ""; ""Letters on a Regicide Peace ""; ""Letter No .
• 1. On the Overtures of Peace, p. 59 ""; ""Letter No.
• 2. Genius and Character of the French Revolution, p. 153 ""; ""Letter No.
• 3. Proposals for Peace, p. 191 ""; ""Letter No.
• 4. To the Earl Fitzwilliam, p. 307 ""; ""Notes, p. 395 ""

• ""Edmund Burke, Miscellaneous Writings ""; ""Front Matter ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Details ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Editor's Foreword, p. ix ""; ""Editor's Note, p. xvii ""; ""Short Titles, p. xix ""; ""Miscellaneous Writings ""; ""Speech to the Electors of Bristol, p. 3 ""; ""Speech on the Reform of the Representation of the Commons in Parliament, p. 15 ""; ""Two Letters to Gentlemen in Bristol on the Trade of Ireland, p. 31 ""; ""Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, p. 49 ""; ""Speech on Fox's East India Bill, p. 93 ""

• ""A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the Catholics of Ireland, p. 193 """"A Letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, p. 255 ""; ""Select Bibliography on Edmund Burke, p. 283 ""

• ""Edmund Burke, Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 2 ""; ""Front Matter ""; ""Works Title Page ""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Details ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Editor's Foreword, p. ix ""; ""Editor's Note, p. xxx ""; ""Chronolgoy, p. xxxi ""; ""Introduction by E.J. Payne, p. 3 ""; ""Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 85 ""; ""Notes, p. 367 ""

• Letter to Charles-Jean-François Depont (November, 1789)
• Letter to Philip Francis (February, 1790)
• A letter to a member of the National Assembly (May, 1791)
• An appeal from the new to the old whigs (August, 1791)
• Thoughts on French affairs (December, 1791)
• Letter to William Elliot (May, 1795)
• A letter to a noble Lord (February, 1796).

In his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Edmund Burke excoriated French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France's venerable institutions and way of life. But his war against the French intelligentsia did not end there, and Burke continued to take pen in hand against the Jacobins until his death in 1797. This new collection brings together for the first time Burke's most important essays and letters on the French Revolution. There are seven items in the collection. Taken together, they anticipate, refine, and embellish Burke's Reflections. Included are Burke's "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, " in which he assails Jean Jacques Rousseau, the patron saint of the French Revolution; Burke's "Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, " in which he presents his classic defense of the Glorious Revolution of 1688; and his "A Letter to a Noble Lord, " in which he defends his life and career against his detractors and, according to John Morley, writes "the most splendid repartee in the English language."

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Edmund Burke; BURKE'S Enquiry; THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; THE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; INTRODUCTION. On Taste; THE CONTENTS; Explanatory Notes.

An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. 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 Sublime, a subject that has fascinated thinkers from Kant and Coleridge to the philosophers and critics of today. This is the only available edition of the work.
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• I. A vindication of natural society. A philosophical inquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and ...