Misappropriation
Colin Kidd: Burke, 4 February 2016
Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke
by Richard Bourke.
Princeton, 1001 pp., £30.95, September 2015,978 0 691 14511 2 Show More
by Richard Bourke.
Princeton, 1001 pp., £30.95, September 2015,
Training Minds for the War of Ideas: Ashridge College, the Conservative Party and the Cultural Politics of Britain, 1929-54
by Clarisse Berthezène.
Manchester, 214 pp., £75, June 2015,978 0 7190 8649 6 Show More
by Clarisse Berthezène.
Manchester, 214 pp., £75, June 2015,
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Vol. IV: Party, Parliament and the Dividing of the Whigs, 1780-94
edited by P.J. Marshall and Donald Bryant.
Oxford, 674 pp., £120, October 2015,978 0 19 966519 8 Show More
edited by P.J. Marshall and Donald Bryant.
Oxford, 674 pp., £120, October 2015,
“... wit, cerebral depth and a marvellous turn of phrase. But reductionism of this sort won’t do, as Richard Bourke shows in his erudite and compelling study of Burke’s political life. Burke’s earliest works, before his engagement to the Rockingham Whigs, were concerned with fundamental questions in political philosophy and aesthetics. The Tory ... ”