Bolingbroke's Political Writings
Auteur: Bernard Cottret
Nombre de pages: 436 pages
ISBN: 1349258059, 9781349258055
Edition: Springer
Date de publication: Springer
Description: In turn, Tory minister, Jacobite renegade, English philosopher and anti-minister, Bolingbroke has elicited mixed reactions from his compatriots, both contempories and historians. Bernard Cottret discusses here his political writings in the context of contemporary thought in England and France. His analyses of 'A' Dissertation upon Parties' and 'The Idea of a Patriot King' are supported by a full mid-eighteenth-century political thought.