The Metaphysics of Edmund Burke

by Joseph L. Pappin III

Book Overview

The most recent commentators on Edmund Burke have renewed the charge that his political thought lacks the consistency and coherency necessary to even claim the status of a political philosophy and that he is indeed a utilitarian. They mark him off as an ideologist, a rhetorician, and a deliberate propagandist. Even Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, his most profound statement of a political philosophy, is regarded by some as a work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823213668
• ISBN13: 9780823213665
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"