Bolingbroke's Political Writings

The Conservative Enlightenment

Buch | Hardcover

436 Seiten

1997
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-333-59887-0 (ISBN)

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

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.8.1997
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Modern History
Zusatzinfo	XI, 436 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-333-59887-3 / 0333598873
ISBN-13	978-0-333-59887-0 / 9780333598870
Zustand	Neuware