I propose a conference paper arguing for the inclusion of Edmund Burke in a canon of green or proto-green thinkers, even though his ideas appear contradictory in important respects. My paper will address several aspects of Burke's thought, including his aesthetic theory in Origin of Our Ideas of...

Edmund Burke is widely acknowledged as one of the most astute students of the social psychology of revolutions. As JGA Pocock has shown, the concept of enthusiasm played a crucial role in Burke's analysis of the French Revolution, supplying him with a vocabulary with which to capture how the...

The aim of this paper is to systematically enquire into the relationship Robbins sets in his writings - prior to the Essay and further brought out in several subsequent works - between 'economic science' and 'political economy' in order to understand the role of each in the work of the...