Bolingbroke's Political Writings: The Conservative Enlightenment

by Bernard Cottret (Editor)

Overview

In turn, Tory minister, Jacobite renegade, English philosopher and anti-minister, Bolingbroke has elicited mixed reactions from his compatriots, both contempories and historians. Bernard Cottret discusses here his political writings in the context of contemporary thought in England and France. His analyses of 'A' Dissertation upon Parties' and 'The Idea of a Patriot King' are supported by a full mid-eighteenth-century political thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333598870
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/04/1997
Series:	Studies in Modern History
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	436
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bolingbroke, or the Conservative Enlightenment - Death of a Philosopher: Bolingbroke's Last Trick - Great Expectations: Bolingbroke and the Extinction of Party Politics - The Swan's Song: A Patriot King or None! - A Dissertation upon Parties - The Idea of a Patriot King - Appendix - Chronology - Table: Skeleton Genealogy of the St Johns - Index

Editorial Reviews

Facsimiles and analysis of Henry St. John Bolingbroke's (1678- 1751) "Essay upon Parties" and "Idea of a Patriot King". In four introductory essays, Cottret (British History, U. of Versailles-St. Quentin) places the works in the context of contemporary thought in Britain, France, and America; examines the influence of the Tory minister and Jacobite renegade on the patriotic tradition; and suggests the existence of a Conservative enlightenment much more radical than its Whig counterpart. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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