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Edmund Burke: Religion and Eighteenth-Century Modernity’ This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ ‘Edmund Burke Religion and Eighteenth-Century Modernity’ O'Connell, Kelleen Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). 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Kelleen O’Connell Thesis Submitted for Examination: PhD King’s College London August, 2013 ‘Edmund Burke: Religion and Eighteenth-Century Modernity’ Thesis Abstract This thesis fills the need for a comprehensive study of Edmund Burke’s representation of global religions throughout the general oeuvre of his writings and speeches. My objective is to advance the study of Burke by offering a critical account of his religious thought, as a critical imprint in his literature. In addition to situating Burke’s writing in the context of Enlightenment thought and eighteenth-century public life, I make a further contribution to the study of Burke’s literature by demonstrating how twentieth and twenty-first century theories of modernity can help to articulate Burke’s conception of religion. Studies that have categorically seated Burke in the context of ‘modernity’ (for example, from Terry Eagleton, Paddy Bullard, and Stephen K. White) treat him as a ‘politician’, as ‘Edmund Burke the rhetorician’, or ‘as an aesthetician’.1 My thesis compliments these studies by filling the need to treat Burke as a multicultural quasi-religious thinker in the context of modernity. Studies that have treated Burke in a religious context (for example, from Conor Cruise O’Brien, Thomas H.D. Mahoney, Eamonn O’Flaherty, Elizabeth Lambert, J.C.D. Clark, Brian Young, Frederick Dryer, and others) have done so with the objective of understanding more about his personal religious convictions.2 Differing from such studies, I do not intend to unearth 1 The parameters and characteristics of the term ‘modernity’ are defined later in the introduction to this thesis; Stephen K. White, Edmund Burke: Modernity, Politics, and Aesthetics, (Maryland: USA, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1994), p. 2; Paddy Bullard, Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 2; Terry Eagleton, Ideology of the Aesthetic, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990), p. 58. 2 Conor Cruise O’Brien, The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke, (London: Sinclair Stevenson, 1992); Thomas H.D. Mahoney, Edmund Burke and Ireland, (London: Oxford University Press, 1960); Eamonn O’Flaherty, ‘Burke and the Catholic Question’, Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr, 12, (1997), 7–27; Elizabeth Lambert, ‘Edmund Burke’s Religion’, English Language Notes, 32 (1994), 19–28; J.C.D. Clark, ‘Religious Affiliation and Dynastic Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century England: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and Samuel Johnson’, English Literary History, 64 (1997), 1029–67; Brian Young, Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England: Theological Debate from Locke to Burke (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998); also F.P. Lock, ‘Burke and Religion’, in An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke, (Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2005), ed. by Ian Crowe, pp. 35–58; and Ian ii Burke’s true religious identity; rather, I intend to fill the need for a full-length study of Burke’s analysis of religion, as it appears in a literary context. There exists no monographic study of Burke’s conceptualization of global religions as translated through recent theories of modernity. This is the task set forth in this thesis. Most of the studies that acknowledge Burke in a religious context treat him in strictly Christ-centred terms, mostly to support reactionary-conservative interpretations (e.g., Francis Canavan, Bruce Frohnen, and Christopher Hitchens).3 I wish to examine political thinking about religion, beyond Christ-centred terms - his global conception of non-Christian, non-god-centred thinking. In doing so, this thesis is intended to present an interpretation of Burke that acknowledges the importance he placed on indigenous religious culture. To my mind, interpretations of Burke that emphasise his reactionary-conservatism also implicate him as being anti-modern. As I intend to explore Burke’s writings and speeches in the context of modernity, I believe it is only responsible to acknowledge these interpretations of him as a reactionary- conservative. I use the work of J.G.A. Pocock, S.J. Barnett, Bruno Latour and others to establish a context of eighteenth-century modernity, or what was modern to Enlightenment minds.4 In addition, my critical analysis of Burke demonstrates how the same characteristics and themes associated with this eighteenth-century context of modernity are reflected in representations of Crowe, Patriotism and Public Spirit: Edmund Burke and the Role of the Critic in Mid-18th Century Britain, (Stanford California: Stanford University Press, 2012). 3 Francis Canavan, ‘Edmund Burke: Christian Statesman’, Reflections, 1, (2003), [accessed 28 January 2009], (para. 1 of 13); Bruce Frohnen, Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism The Legacy of Burke and Tocqueville, (Kansas, USA: University Press of Kansas, 1993); Christopher Hitchens, ‘Reactionary Prophet’, The Atlantic Monthly, 3 (2004), 133–38, (p. 133). 4 J.G.A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, 5 vols, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999–2001), II, Narratives of Civil Government, V, Religion: the First Triumph; S.J. Barnett, The Enlightenment and Religion: the Myths of Modernity (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003); Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, trans. by Catherine Porter, (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993). iii modernity that are more recent. I use twentieth and twenty-first century theories of modernity to enrich our understanding of Burke’s representation of religion. I deconstruct Burke’s representation of religion to suggest that it anticipates the various complexities communicated in studies of modernity (for example, from Zygmunt Bauman, Marshall Berman, and Paul Heelas, Phillip Blond, John Milbank, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault).5 Ultimately, my thesis validates Burke as an originator of modern (and contemporary) religious conceptualization, which transcends things such as nation, sect, and even good and evil. 5 Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000); Marshall Berman, All that is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience Of Modernity, (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1982); Paul Heelas, Religion, Modernity, and Postmodernity, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998); Phillip Blond, ‘The Primacy of Theology and the Question of Perception’, Ibid., pp. 285–313; John Milbank, ‘Sublimity: the Modern Transcendent’, in Ibid., pp. 258– 84; Jacques Derrida, Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida, ed. by John D. Caputo, (USA: Fordham University Press, 1997); Michel Foucault, Mental Illness and Psychology, (Berkley: University of California Press, 1976), p. 81; also Michel Foucault, Religion and Culture, ed. by Jeremy R. Carrette, (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press,
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