Edmund Burke for Our Time
Moral Imagination, Meaning, and Politics

William F. Byrne (Author)

9781501755224

Paperback / softback, published 15 August 2021

238 pages, 1 b&w halftone - 1 Halftones, black and white
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg

Byrne's prose is highly readable, and his reading of Burke both plausible and illuminating.

This highly readable book offers a contemporary interpretation of the political thought of Edmund Burke, drawing on his experiences to illuminate and address fundamental questions of politics and society that are of particular interest today. In Edmund Burke for Our Time, Byrne asserts that Burke's politics is reflective of unique and sophisticated ideas about how people think and learn and about determinants of political behavior.