Author: R. R. FennessyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789401536387
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Burke, Paine, and the Rights of Man
Author: R. R. FennessyPublisher:
ISBN: 9789401536387
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Rights of Man
Author: Thomas PaineThe Great Debate
Author: Yuval LevinPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465040942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. Striving to forge a new political path in the tumultuous age of the American and French revolutions, these two ideological titans sparred over moral and philosophical questions about the nature of political life and the best approach to social change: radical and swift, or gradual and incremental. The division they articulated continues to shape our political life today. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the basis of our political order and Washington's acrimonious rifts today, The Great Debate offers a profound examination of what conservatism, progressivism, and the debate between them truly amount to.
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
Author: Christopher HitchensPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802143839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" has been celebrated, criticized, maligned, suppressed, and co-opted, but Hitchens marvels at its forethought and revels in its contentiousness. In this book, he demonstrates how Paine's book forms the philosophical cornerstone of the U.S.
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Author: Pamela ClemitPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521516072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.
Language and Revolution in Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin
Author: Jane HodsonPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754654032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Jane Hodson's book explores the relationship between political persuasion, literary style, and linguistic theory in four key texts on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and William Godwin. Situating these texts in the context of more than 50 contemporaneous books on language, as well as pamphlets, novels, and letters, Hodson challenges the notion that the Revolution debate was a straightforward conflict between radical and conservative linguistic practices.
Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy
Author: Marilyn ButlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521286565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Analysis of the great Revolution debate of late eighteenth century England, inspired by the French Revolution, reveals how the passions of oppositional writers were sufficiently aroused to create a "pamphlet war."
Burke, Paine, and the Rights of Man
Author: R. R. FennessyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401536376
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
At the present day, when there is renewed interest in the concept of human rights and in the application of this concept to the problems of government,! it may be instructive to review an eighteenth-century dispute which was concerned precisely with these themes. Nor should the investigation be any less interesting because the disputants were Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine: both these men have also been the object of renewed attention and study in recent years. Critical work on the biography and bibliography of Paine is being done by Professor Aldridge and Col. Richard Gimbel respectively;2 while Burke is being well looked after, not only by the able team of experts who, under the leadership of Professor Copeland, are engaged in producing the critical edition of his Correspondence, but also by such individual scholars as D. C. Bryant, C. B. Cone, T. H. D. Mahoney, 3 P. J. Stanlis, C. Parkin, F. Canavan, and A. Cobban. But though Burke and Paine are being studied separately, little work appears to have been done on the relationship between them, apart from an 4 essay by Professor Copeland published more than twelve years ago. It is hoped that the present study, while it does not claim to add anything to the facts about Burke and Paine already known to his- 1 See Nehemiah Robinson, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution
Author: Edmund BurkeCommerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy
Author: Gregory M. CollinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108489400
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
This book explores Edmund Burke's economic thought through his understanding of commerce in wider social, imperial, and ethical contexts.