The Politics Of Delight

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Notes

1. For a recent detailed and sophisticated attempt to ‘radicalise’ Burke and represent him as an important critic of ‘the dark side of the Enlightenment’, see Gibbons, Edmund Burke and Ireland.

2. McLaughlin and Boulton, The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, 236.

3. McLaughlin and Boulton, The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, 252.

4. McLaughlin and Boulton, The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, 217.

5. McLaughlin and Boulton, The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, 238.

6. Mitchell, The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, 126–128.

7. For a recent investigation into the idea of republicanism as essentially concerned with contesting and setting limits to ‘the structures of mastery’, see Philip Pettit, Republicanism.