Edmund Burke and the Revolt Against the Eighteenth Century

A Study of the Political and Social Thinking of Burke, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey

Alfred Cobban

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781000704785
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This edition first published in 1960. The revival of interest in the thought of Burke was one of the justifications for the publication of a second edition of Professor Cobban's study of the political and social ideas of Burke and his closest disciples, the Lake Poets.

Burke's thought has both historical and permanent significance: fundamentally his works are as relevant today as when they were first written. In this book Burke's ideas are discussed without the uncritical adulation they receive in some quarters, and those of the Lake Poets without the undue depreciation from which they used to suffer.

This title will be of great interest to students of politics, philosophy and history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Preface to the First Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Note
• Contents
• Chapter I: Fundamental Ideas of the Eighteenth Century
• Chapter II: Burke and the Heritage of Locke
• Chapter III: Burke: Basis of Political Theory
• Chapter IV: Burke and the Origins of the Theory of Nationality
• Chapter V: Wordsworth and Nationality
• Chapter VI: The Political Philosophy of Coleridge
• Chapter VII: The Lake Poets and Social Reform
• Chapter VIII: The State and Religion
• Chapter IX: The Revolt Against the Eighteenth Century
• Bibliographical Note
• Index