BurkeHill and Wang, 1980 - 83 páginas In this concise yet powerful book, one of the twentieth century's most respected political philosophers presents a controversial reassessment of the political ideas and intellectual legacy of Edmund Burke. A practicing politician and powerful writer, full of ideas, Burke was intent on getting those ideas translated into government policies. But he was too much the impatient practitioner to set out his principles in a single book in the manner of Locke or Hume, leaving both admirers and opponents ample scope to reinterpret his work in different ways. Macpherson, however, finds Burke's views on political economy to be the one consistent factor in his thinking. Today Burke is often viewed as one of modern conservatism's founding lights, and in an era of global capitalism unfettered by national borders, Macpherson's reassessment of Burke's ideas is perhaps more timely than ever. -- Amazon.com. |
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... English politician and propagandist , was a par- venu , and moreover an Irish parvenu . He was , and was seen by opponents to be , an Irish adventurer intent on making his mark in English politics . He made a mark , but one not as dis ...
... English politician and propagandist , was a par- venu , and moreover an Irish parvenu . He was , and was seen by opponents to be , an Irish adventurer intent on making his mark in English politics . He made a mark , but one not as dis ...
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... English politics which was to lead him into his illustrious English and European career . It began with his being taken up by an M.P. and office - holder , William Gerard Hamilton , who in 1761 became chief secretary to the Lord ...
... English politics which was to lead him into his illustrious English and European career . It began with his being taken up by an M.P. and office - holder , William Gerard Hamilton , who in 1761 became chief secretary to the Lord ...
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... English Revolution of 1689 would be incred- ibly naïve had he not been assuming some parallel in the forces m at work , a century apart , in the two countries . How far he saw those forces in either case as specifically capitalist ones ...
... English Revolution of 1689 would be incred- ibly naïve had he not been assuming some parallel in the forces m at work , a century apart , in the two countries . How far he saw those forces in either case as specifically capitalist ones ...
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The Irish adventurer | 8 |
The AngloEuropean wasp | 38 |
The bourgeois political economist | 51 |
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