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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Important Dates in the Life of Edmund Burke -- Short Titles -- Part One. Burke and the Literary Imagination -- 1 Coleridge's Fragments on Burke -- 2 Hazlitt's Criticism of Burke -- 3 Rhetoric -- 4 Macaulay's Comments on Burke -- 5 Mr. Macaulay -- 6 The Function of Criticism at the Present Time -- 7 Burke and the Sense of Process -- 8 Burke and the Fall of Language: The French Revolution as Linguistic Event -- 9 The Politics of Taste -- Part Two. Burke and Revolution -- 10 Burke's Conservative Revolution -- 11 A Revolution Not Made, but Prevented -- Part Three. Burke and Constitutional, Party Government -- 12 The British Constitution: The Rule of Gentlemen -- 13 Constitutional Government and Revolution -- Part Four. Burke and the Radical Mind -- 14 The Organic Society and Human Perfection -- 15 Ireland, "Circumstances," and Modern Anti-Communism -- Part Five. Burke and the Conservative Mind -- 16 Religion and Politics -- 17 Burke and the Moral Imagination -- 18 Burke and the Natural Law -- 19 The Organic Premise -- 20 Prescription of Government -- 21 Sources of Conservatism -- Bibliography -- Index

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