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HUMAN body, SUBLIME, The, SUBJECTIVITY in literature, INTIMACY (Psychology), and LANGUAGE & culture

In the Enquiry , Burke gives voice to a traumatic cultural symptom—an inaccessible yet necessary sublimity—that is bound to his dual role as English and Irish and his understanding of the many versions of subjectivity in eighteenth-century aesthetics. Burke gives further articulation to conventional notions of sympathy by positing the sympathetic sublime as a possible mediator of inflicted and symptomatic traumas—traumas that cannot be reduced or generalized as a unified, theoretical "trauma" but instead remain individual regardless of Burke's desire to make them part of a transcendental aesthetic. The necessary distance presupposed by a sublime experience is counteracted by the intimacy of the imagination—we must make a painful experience a personal one in order to sympathize with it—and this intimacy occurs when the subject is confronted by both the gender and language of an other. Such confrontation reconfigures notions of the self and its position within the economy of modern imperialism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Segregation in education, Elections, Conservatism, United States presidential election, 2020, State power, Social order, Democrats (United States), and Political debates

EFFEMINACY, RHETORIC, and REVOLUTIONS

This article focuses on the gendered and nationalist rhetorical strategies Mary Wollstonecraft used in her work The Vindication of the Rights of Man which was written as an open letter of response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. While a number of scholars note Wollstonecraft's adoption of a masculine voice in her systematic feminizing of Burke, this article also pays attention to the ways in which Wollstonecraft impugns Burke with the taints of being crypto-Catholic, Irish, and quasi-French. We notice how Wollstonecraft's masculine voice is rational, combative, righteously passionate, middle-class, patriotically English and critically Protestant. We compare the fashioning of Wollstonecraft's voice with contemporary political caricatures of John Bull and the cartoon depictions of Edmund Burke that appeared as Wollstonecraft was composing her VRM. Wollstonecraft's VRM gained her considered attention and her critique of Burke's character, (and what this article claims is her misreading of his aesthetic treatise), have been remarkably influential even to the present day. The characteristics of the distinct voice created in Wollstonecraft's first Vindication are also evident in her second and more famous Vindication of the Rights of Woman. However, the rhetorical commitments entailed in Wollstonecraft's public voice created challenges for her arguments in the second Vindication that demand careful attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PHILOSOPHY & politics and POLITICAL doctrines

In Natural Right and History, Leo Strauss accused Edmund Burke of being ignorant of the nobility of last-ditch resistance; defending a conception of history that set the path for historicism; and discarding a vision of politics as it ought to be. By separating philosophy from politics, Burke, according to Strauss, helped lay the intellectual foundation for modern political ideologies. While a number of scholars have attempted to vindicate or refute Strauss' criticisms through textual exegesis, my article aims to lay a sharper emphasis on particular historical episodes of Burke's political life in which his political thought and statesmanship calls into question Strauss' interpretations. I argue, moreover, that Burke's legislative activities retain a closer resemblance to Strauss' conception of classical statesmanship than Strauss suggests in Natural Right and History. I conclude by maintaining that Straussian scholars could enrich their framework of the Western canon by giving greater attention to Burke's political thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SCIENTIFIC literature, ETHICS, SOCIAL order, HUMAN beings, and PUBLIC opinion

The article explores how Edmund Burke he made the family the touchstone of his good governance vision and not just opposed the revolutionary ideas of philosophers. Burke reminded his English readers in "Reflections on the Revolution in France" that the source of their constitutional liberties was inheritance's principle. The English may not meet the approval of philosophers of France, who saw irrationality and oppressiveness in the family, by staying loyal to the principle.

POLITICAL participation, CONSTITUTIONALISM, AESTHETICS, and READING

I propose taking the beautiful and the sublime in Edmund Burke not just as aesthetic but also as theoretical categories which can help us read his constitutional thought in dialectical terms. I suggest indeed that his usage of these categories in the Reflections on the Revolution in France points to a consistently held argument concerning the aporias of early-modern contractarian theories and their influence on the French Revolution. My hypothesis is that for Burke the Revolution is unable to think of any concrete relation between beauty and sublimity, insofar as they can be associated, respectively, with particularity and universality. Furthermore, I underscore how Burke's defence of partial representation against contractarian representation aims to overcome this impasse. My goal is to demonstrate that Burke raises decisive questions as to the intrinsically anti-democratic effects of the contractarian concept of democracy and is still useful to confront the contemporary crisis of democratic participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CONSERVATISM, NINETEENTH century, ROMANIANS, PEASANTS, and PUBLIC policy (Law)

THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF THE WEST ON THE ROMANIAN SPACE AFFECTED THE EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION OF ROMANIAN CONSERVATISM. THUS, OUR COUNTRY CAME TO KNOW CONSERVATISM QUITE WELL, DESPITE THE MUCH LESS INTENSE ENGLISH IMPACT COMPARATIVELY TO THE FRENCH ONE. EDMUND BURKE'S REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE INSPIRED THE IDEOLOGICAL ARSENAL OF ROMANIAN CONSERVATISM. BURKE'S BOOK INSISTS ON THE NEGATIVE IMPACT THAT REVOLUTIONS HAVE, WITH THE DISRUPTION OF PUBLIC ORDER HAVING SERIOUS REPERCUSSIONS ON SOCIETY AS A WHOLE. OUR CONSERVATIVES HAVE MADE THE DEFENCE OF ORDER THEIR SUPREME COMMAND. HOWEVER, THE INEVITABLY POLITICAL-IST APPROACHES HAVE MADE THE OUTCOME A LITTLE DIFFERENT. IN THE SPRING OF 1907, THE PEASANT UPRISING WAS TO PUT AN END TO A CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT THAT HAD BEEN CRITICISED PRECISELY FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO MANAGE THE DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN PEASANTS AND LANDOWNERS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intervention (Administrative procedure), Minimum wage, Economic reform, and Liberalism