Tom Furniss, Furniss Tom

Edmund Burke's Aesthetic Ideology

Language, Gender and Political Economy in Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed and theoretically informed reading of the aesthetics and politics of Burke's major writings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780521055482
• ISBN-10: 0521055482
• Artikelnr.: 23364551

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note on texts
Introduction
Part I. Aesthetics for a Bourgeois Revolution: 1. A theory not to be revoked: A Philosophical Enquiry
2. Labour and luxury: aesthetics and the division of labour
3. The political economy of taste: limiting the sublime
4. The labour and profit of language
Part II. Reflections on a Radical Revolution: 5. The genesis of the Reflections: resisting the irresistible voice of the multitude
6. Stripping the queen: Edmund Burke's magic lantern show
7. A revolution in manners: chivalry and political economy
8. Reform and revolution
9. Imaginary constitutions and economies
10. Speculation and the republic of letters
Notes
Index.