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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Edmund Burke"”.
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‘Edmund Burke: Religion and Eighteenth-Century Modernity’
… fills the need for a comprehensive study of Edmund Burke’s representation of global religions throughout the general oeuvre of his writings and speeches. My objective is to advance the study of Burke by offering a critical account of his religious thought, as a critical imprint in his …
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Edmund Burke as Literary Critic and Esthetic Theorist
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Inventing Burke: Edmund Burke and the Conservative Party, 1790-1918
… thesis explores the circumstances by which Edmund Burke came to be regarded as the father of Anglo-conservatism. Conventional wisdom assumes Burke was hailed as a Conservative oracle from the moment <em>Reflections on the Revolution in France</em> appeared. In fact, nineteenth century …
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Love and Duty in the Political Thought of Edmund Burke
… is the first book-length study of the family in Edmund Burke’s political thought. It situates Burke’s ideas about the family within his broader interest in the civic importance of love and duty, which also encompassed love and duty toward friends, country, and mankind. Although the influence of …
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Individual as political symbol : Warren Hastings and Marie Antoinette in the writings of Edmund Burke.
Although Edmund Burke's political writings have exerted a considerable influence on English, European, and American thought, critics and historians over the last two hundred years have debated the exact nature of Burke's contributions. In the 1950s, however, a group of scholars including Russell …
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A contribuição da teoria política de Edmund Burke à atividade decisória judicial, no contexto do dissenso contemporâneo
… outro condicionamento, com base nas reflexões de Edmund Burke sobre a Revolução na França, através lente da hermenêutica filosófica gadameriana, compatibilizando-as com a abertura ao problema do dissenso e à realidade do pluralismo. Para tanto, fora realizada pesquisa bibliográfica em relação a …
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The interplay of trauma and the sublime in four fictions by Ian McEwan.
… ideas of the sublime described by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant. These evocations of trauma and the sublime often coincide in the novels.
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Ambrose Bierce: Between politics and philosophy
… the "father" of British conservative thought, Edmund Burke. Though many political historians argue American political culture has never contained elements of British conservatism, others claim there has always existed a small strain of Burkean conservatism throughout American political history. …
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The common law of nations : the ius gentium in the political thought of Francisco Suárez, S.J.
… and contrasting it with that of Hugo Grotius and Edmund Burke, I will endeavor to demonstrate that Suárez's account of international relations most accurately identifies the bases for international order without international authority.
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The New Feminine Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and the Forms of Romantic-Era Feminism
… I focus in part on the rhetorical battle between Edmund Burke, with his Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Thomas Paine, with his Rights of Man. From there, I suggest that Mary Wollstonecraft, writing in the wake of the Burke-Paine debate and drawing upon the rhetorical philosophy of …
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Beyond horror: or, exploring the connections between E.A. Poe's writtings and A. Hitchcock's cinema
… vychází z pojmu vznešena, jak podrobně popsal Edmund Burke, stejně jako z pojmu opovržení, o kterém pojednává Julia Kristeva. Tyto pojmy tvoří hlavní základ hororové tvorby; druhá analytická kapitola poukazuje právě na to, že v tvorbě Poea a Hitchcocka se tyto teorie objevují, což je zřejmé …
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Re-thinking contemporary aesthetic spaces : Diana Thorneycroft and the unacceptable sublime
… of the sublime defined by Immanuel Kant and Edmund Burke, I hope to promote a new space in which the human body and its training can be challenged. The museum and art gallery can serve as a liberating and emancipatory space in which to explore human response.
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The Sublime and the Dutiful: Ethics and Excess From Edwards to Melville
… Kant or the empirical approach exemplified by Edmund Burke, represents but one, transcendent version of the category: a version that derives its force from a subject's ability to recover itself at a level beyond that at which it is threatened. If, however, we take as the basis of the sublime …
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Hearing the Sublime: Signification of the Sublime in Solo Piano Literature of the Nineteenth Century
… the philosophy of the sublime as understood by Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797), Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804), Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805), and Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860), with references to other contemporary philosophers and writers. The broader influence of the sublime in regards to …
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A fabulist’s alternity & Lovecraft and the grotesque sublime
… analysis employs the sublime as explained by Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) in A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of The Sublime and the Beautiful (1757) and the technological sublime; and the grotesque as presented by Wolfgang Kayser (1906 – 1960) in The Grotesque in Art and …
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Between the old and the new : Friedrich Gentz, 1764-1832
… politics in Europe. The German translator of Edmund Burke, he was instrumental in bringing the conservative thinker's ideas into the conversations of Central Europe, while his writings against first the French Revolution, then Napoleon, marked him as one of the leading opponents of …
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I Know Him Not, and Never Will: Moby Dick, The Human and the Whale
… mathematical and dynamic sublime as outlined by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, while also employing Goethe's Theory of Colours in his depictions of the ocean setting. Goethe posits that opposing phenomena require one another to signify and to function, and Melville dramatises this idea …
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Patriots and Fribbles: Effeminacy and Politics in the Literature of the Seven Years’ War and its Aftermath, 1756-1774
… chapter reads the early political writings of Edmund Burke (1729- 1797) in the context of the fractious debates engendered by Wilkes’s attempts at re-entry to political life in the late 1760s. I argue that Burke’s understanding of the sublime offers an aesthetic response to effeminophobic and …
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Imagination Movers: The Creation of Conservative Counter-Narratives in Reaction to Consensus Liberalism
… that began with English parliamentarian Edmund Burke. Using Burke and his dislike for the modern revolutionary spirit, Kirk uncovered a supposedly conservative seed that began in late eighteenth-century England, and traced it through various interlocutors into the United States that …
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The beautiful Gothic: an investigation into the use and development of the beautiful and death in Gothic literature
… in Gothic literature. Using ideas proposed by Edmund Burke, I will argue that authors of the Gothic genre developed these ideas into a maturing relationship between the Sublime and the Beautiful, and then demonstrate how this relationship has close ties with death and resurrection. I will also …
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