David Dwan is a lecturer in English at Queen's University Belfast. He is author of The Great Community: Culture and Nationalism in Ireland (2008) and has written a range of articles on intellectual history and modern literature. Christopher Insole is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics at the University of Durham, UK. He is the author of The Politics of Human Frailty: A Theological Defence of Political Liberalism (2005) and has written articles on Burke, Kant, philosophy of religion, epistemology and intellectual history.

• Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Method of citation; Chronology; Introduction: philosophy in action; 1. Burke's life F. P. Lock; 2. Burke, Enlightenment and Romanticism Richard Bourke; 3. Burke as rhetorician and orator Christopher Reid; 4. Burke's aesthetic psychology Paddy Bullard; 5. Burke on law and legal theory Seán Patrick Donlan; 6. Burke on political economy Richard Whatmore; 7. Burke and religion Ian Harris; 8. Burke and the constitution David M. Craig; 9. Burke and the natural law Christopher Insole; 10. Burke and utility David Dwan; 11. Burke and the ends of empire Jennifer Pitts; 12. Burke and the American crisis Harry T. Dickinson; 13. Burke on India Frederick G. Whelan; 14. Burke on Ireland Ian McBride; 15. 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' Iain Hampsher-Monk; 16. Burke's counterrevolutionary writings Iain Hampsher-Monk; 17. Burke in the USA Seamus Deane; Further reading.

'[This book] aims to disentangle Burke from his many contexts and for the most part it succeeds impressively.' The Times Literary Supplement