Concepts

Philosophical, political, economic or literary concepts and their evolution through time and history were key to the definition of the concept of sociability and influenced the dissemination and circulation of models of sociability during the long eighteenth century.

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Edmund Burke

COL Norbert
While Edmund Burke was a lifelong practitioner of sociability at all possible levels ̶ familial, intellectual and political ̶ , what is far more arresting are the gaps between his early theorising, in Sublime and Beautiful, and what happened with the French Revolution. The latter helped Burke show that ambition was now destructive of sociability, no longer just one of its components.