Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-107-00657-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Edmund Burke ranks among the most accomplished orators ever to debate in the British Parliament. But often his eloquence has been seen to compromise his achievements as a political thinker. In the first full-length account of Burke's rhetoric, Bullard argues that Burke's ideas about civil society, and particularly about the process of political deliberation, are, for better or worse, shaped by the expressiveness of his language. Above all, Burke's eloquence is designed to express ethos or character. This rhetorical imperative is itself informed by Burke's argument that the competency of every political system can be judged by the ethical knowledge that the governors have of both the people that they govern and of themselves. Bullard finds the intellectual roots of Burke's 'rhetoric of character' in early modern moral and aesthetic philosophy, and traces its development through Burke's parliamentary career to its culmination in his masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bullard, Paddy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Burke, rhetoric and ethics; 1. The ethical turn in early modern rhetoric, 1600–1760; 2. Rhetoric in Ireland, 1693–1765; 3. The Epicurean aesthetics of Burke's Philosophical Enquiry; 4. Episodes in the evolution of Burke's eloquence; 5. Reflections on the Revolution in France and the rhetoric of character; 6. Burke, Rousseau and the purchase of eloquence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Bullard, Paddy
Paddy Bullard is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury.