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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Common Room
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SUMMARY:David Bromwich\, Luke Gibbon\, Uday Mehta\, and Tom Paulin on E
 dmund Burke
DESCRIPTION:In a conference co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Hu
 manities and the University Seminar on Political and Social 
 Thought\, esteemed writers and scholars\, Tom Paulin\, David Br
 omwich\, Uday Mehta\, and Luke Gibbons\, among others\, come tog
 ether at the Heyman Center on February 10th and 11th to disc
 uss a figure of extraordinary centrality\, Edmund Burke\, who 
 was a great philosopher\, a great social theorist\, and a grea
 t political figure wholly unafraid of public participation i
 n the controversies of his time. Burke was of unique and par
 adoxical importance because with the very same argument he g
 enerated a political position that is regarded as highly con
 servative in European politics (by his critique of the Frenc
 h Revolution) and highly progressive in colonial politics (b
 y his critique of British imperialism). He considered both t
 he French Revolution and the British Empire as forms of mass
 ive impertinence against deep existing traditions and commun
 ities. Thus\, in an age of Empire and of Revolution\, he was a
  figure of paradox that simply had to be addressed. And in o
 ur own time\, when Empire is emerging in new and revised form
 s and where corporate intrusion into distant lands once agai
 n undermines traditions and communities\, his voice emerges a
 s central once again. This conference brings together writer
 s and scholars from Britain and America to consider his impo
 rtance in the past and to speak to his relevance for the lar
 ge issues of our own time.
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