The Reception of Edmund Burke in Europe

by Fitzpatrick, Martin; Jones, Peter; Shaffer, Elinor

• ISBN13: 9781441196651
• ISBN10: 144119665X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-01-12
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Author Biography

Peter Jones is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Martin Fitzpatrick is an independent scholar. He has previously worked as Senior Research Associate at the Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth and has held research fellowships at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Edmund Burke's Life and Works: a Chronology
Timeline: the Reception of Burke

Introduction
Peter Jones and Martin Fitzpatrick

1. The Reception of Burke in Ireland Martyn Powell

2. The Paradoxes of Edmund Burke's Reception in America, 1757-1790 Mark Spencer

3. Burke and Rational Dissent Martin Fitzpatrick and Anthony Page

4. Some Nineteenth Century Appraisals of Burke's Reflections: From Sir James Mackintosh to John Morley Gregory Claeys

5. Edmund Burke, the French Revolution and his French Critics Jeremy Jennings

6. Burke and the Writings of Benjamin Constant C. P. Courtney

7. 'The climacteric event in our history': aspects of Burke's Reception in France Norbert Col

8. An Ambivalent Conservatism. Edmund Burke in the Netherlands 1770-1870 Wessel Krul

9. The Reception of Edmund Burke's Imperial Ideas Relating to India, or Burke, the Brahmin and the Hot-House Sunil Agnani

10. Did an Edinburgh Debate on Taste Delay Responses to Burke? Peter Jones

11. The Impact of Edmund Burke's Physiological Aesthetics in Medico-Philosophical Circles and Art Criticism, 1757-1840 Aris Sarafianos

12. Burke's Political and Aesthetic ideas in Spain: the view from the right? Lioba Simon Schuhmacher

13. The Reception of Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideas in Italy: Translations as Thresholds of Interpretation Daniele Niedda

14. The Reception of the Enquiry in the German Language Area in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: August Gottlieb Meißner and Johann Gottfried Herder Tomáš Hlobil

15. The Reception of Edmund Burke's Aesthetics in Hungary Piroska Balogh

16. Varieties of Old Regime Europe: Thoughts and Details on the Reception of Burke Reflections in Germany László Kontler

Bibliographies
Index