Foreign Affections: Essays on Edmund Burke

by Seamus Deane

This intriguing collection of essays is dominated by the figure of Edmund Burke and by accounts of the ways in which he and some of those he influenced understood the revolutionary changes that produced the modern world. The issues of liberty and empire, faction and revolution, universality, equality, authority, sectarian vice and democratic virtue are central here. Dominating them all is the question of how traditional feeling and affection can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268025703
• ISBN13: 9780268025700
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"