In this concise yet powerful book, one of the twentieth century's most respected political philosophers presents a controversial reassessment of the political ideas and intellectual legacy of Edmund Burke. A practicing politician and powerful writer, full of ideas, Burke was intent on getting those ideas translated into government policies. But he was too much the impatient practitioner to set out his principles in a single book in the manner of Locke or Hume, leaving both admirers and opponents ample scope to reinterpret his work in different ways. Macpherson, however, finds Burke's views on political economy to be the one consistent factor in his thinking. Today Burke is often viewed as one of modern conservatism's founding lights, and in an era of global capitalism unfettered by national borders, Macpherson's reassessment of Burke's ideas is perhaps more timely than ever.

Burke (Past masters)

Biographies & Memoirs

C.B. MacPherson

Leaders & Notable People

Oxford University Press

Ideology in social science;: Readings in critical social theory

Politics & Social Sciences

David Goddard

Maurice Godelier

E.J. HOBSBAWM

Tom Nairn

Ralph Miliband

Lucio Colletti

NORMAN GERAS

Edward Nell

Sociology

Pantheon Books

Burke

Hill & Wang Pub

The Real World of Democracy.

Politics & Government

CBC Enterprises

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