Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
This anthology breaks the speeches and writings of Edmund Burke into short passages, each under its own heading, so that his thought can be sampled one idea at a time. After an introductory essay, the selections range across his career: the duties of the House of Commons, party and principle, political empiricism, despotism, the relation between rulers and people, and the dangers of abstract theory in government, alongside passages from his early treatise on the sublime and the beautiful on taste, obscurity, beauty and the power of words. Read in sequence, the extracts show how closely Burke's political caution and his aesthetics were bound together. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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