Edmund Burke's letter to a noble lord

A textual study in political philosophy and rhetorical action

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12012001
AutoresStephen H Browne (Engineering Arts (United States), autor correspondente)
Ano1988
Volume55
Fascículo3
Páginas215-229
Data de publicação1988-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCommunication Monographs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0363-7751 • E-ISSN: 1479-5787
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03637758809376168
OpenAlexW2114171016
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas13

The enduring importance of Edmund Burke to the study of public address may be attributed to his capacity for conducting political philosophy through the conventional genres of rhetoric. This achievement, however, has led to a bifurcation, in which Burke is appropriated as a philosopher of politics or as a rhetorician of expedience. This essay approaches Burke's thought as it is constituted rhetorically, and may thus serve as a corrective to this tradition. By examining in detail Burke's Letter to a Noble Lord, we are led to see in Burke's rhetoric an over‐riding concern for the alignment of principle with public action; thus situated, the Letter provides an excellent opportunity to see how theoretical precepts may be activated with the constraints of individual will and human community

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