Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction; Part I Initial Orientations: The basis of Burke's political conservatism, Peter J. Stanlis; Edmund Burke's conception of the role of reason in politics, Francis P. Canavan; Utility and natural law in Burke's thought; a reconsideration, J.R. Dinwiddy; Edmund Burke, C.B. Macpherson. Part II Political Issues: Party and the double cabinet: 2 facets of Burke's thoughts, John Brewer; Edmund Burke's rationale of cabinet government, Caroline Robbins; Burke, Bristol, and the concept of representation, James Conniff; Liberty, authority and trust in Burke's idea of empire, Richard Bourke; The theater of the civilised self: Edmund Burke and the East India trials, Siraj Ahmed. Part III Philosophical Presuppostions: The aesthetic dimension of Burke's political thought, Neal Wood; Burke and the ancient constitution, - a problem in the history of ideas, J.G.A. Pocock; Burke and the religious sources of skeptical conservatism, Iain Hampsher-Monk. Part IV Revolution: The genesis of Burke's Reflections, Frederick Dreyer; Burke and radical freedom, Jeffrey Hart; The political economy of Burke's analysis of the French revolution, J.G.A. Pocock; Burke and the French philosophes, Seamus F. Deane; Edmund Burke and the theory of revolution, Michael Freeman; Edmund Burke's changing justification for intervention, Iain Hampsher-Monk. Part V Reputation and Legacy: Edmund Burke and his European reception, Rod Preece; The skeptic's Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790-1990, Michael A. Mosher; Man's second disobedience: a vindication of Burke, Roger Scruton; Name Index.