Edmund Burke's work spans a variety of subjects - from aesthetics through history to constitutional politics and political theory - and has generated an enormous literature drawing on many disciplines, and it continues to feature in a range of contemporary polemics. This volume brings together a representative selection of articles and essays from the last 50 years of this scholarship, and includes an introduction which guides the reader through the selection as well as offering pointers towards more substantial studies that (...) form the critical heritage of this major figure. (shrink)