Volume 24, Number 15 · September 29, 1977
Two Edmund Burkes?
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
The Rage of Edmund Burke: Portrait of an Ambivalent Conservative
by Isaac Kramnick
Basic Books, 225 pp., $12.95
Professor Kramnick sees 'two Burkes: a bourgeois Burke and an aristocratic Burke.' Burke 'personifies' the transformation from the aristocratic world to the bourgeois world. Burke's social ambivalence is seen as reflecting a sexual ambivalence. The bourgeois Burke is the masculine side, the aristocratic Burke is feminine.
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