The intellectual life of Edmund Burke [electronic resource] : from the sublime and beautiful to American independence / David Bromwich.
2014
DA506.B9 .B69 2014eb
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The intellectual life of Edmund Burke [electronic resource] : from the sublime and beautiful to American independence / David Bromwich.
ISBN
9780674416130 electronic book
9780674729704
9780674729704
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Belknap Press, 2014.
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©2014
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English
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1 online resource (x, 500 pages)
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DA506.B9 .B69 2014eb
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941.073092
Summary
The first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought as it emerges in both his major writings and private correspondence. The public and private writings cannot be easily dissociated, nor should they be. For Burke's "a thinker, writer, and politician." The principles of politics were merely those of morality enlarged. Bromwich reads Burke's career as an imperfect attempt to organize an honorable life in the dense medium he knew politics to be. This intellectual biography examines the first three decades of Burke's professional life. His protest against the cruelties of English society and his criticism of all unchecked power laid the groundwork for his later attacks on abuses of government in India, Ireland, and France. Bromwich allows us to see the youthful skeptic, wary of a social contract based on "nature," the theorist of love and fear in relation to "the sublime and beautiful," the advocate of civil liberty, even in the face of civil disorder; the architect of economic reform; and the agitator for peace with America.
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Table of Contents
I. Early Ambition and the Theory of Society
II. The Sublime and Beautiful
III. The Wilkes Crisis and Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
IV. The American War
V. The Loss of the Empire in the West
VI. Democracy, Representation, and the Gordon Riots
VII. In Defense of Politics.
II. The Sublime and Beautiful
III. The Wilkes Crisis and Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
IV. The American War
V. The Loss of the Empire in the West
VI. Democracy, Representation, and the Gordon Riots
VII. In Defense of Politics.