Edmund Burke: Volume I, 1730-1784
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 January 1999
- ISBN 9780198206767
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages612 pages
- Size 242x162x38 mm
- Weight 1015 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 31 pp plates, 4 text illustrations 0
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Short description:
The first volume of a new biography of Edmund Burke (1730-97), one of the most profound, versatile, and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. A writer and philosopher as well as an active politician (a Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years), his speeches are still read and studied as classics of political thought, and through his best-known work, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), he has exercised a profound posthumous influence as `the father of conservatism'.
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Edmund Burke (1730-1797) was one of the most profound, versatile, and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. Born and educated in Dublin, he moved to London to study law, but remained to make a career in English politics, completing A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) before entering the political arena. A Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, his speeches are still read and studied as classics of political thought, and through his best-known work, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) he has continued to exercise a posthumous influence as `the father of conservatism'.
This is the first full, scholarly biography of Burke for over a generation, to be completed in two volumes. The first volume covers the years between 1730-1784, and describes his Irish upbringing and education, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence. Lavishly illustrated, it provides an authoritative account of the complexity and breadth of Burke's philosophical and political writing and examines its origins in his personal experiences and the political world of his day. This outstanding book will be be required reading for anybody seeking a fuller understanding of eighteenth-century history, philosophy, and political thought.
Professor Lock gives us the first volume of what promises to be an important biography.
Table of Contents:
Growing Up Irish, 1730-1744
From a Boy to a Man, 1744-1750
Getting Started, 1750-1757
A Philosophical Enquiry, 1757
Maps of Mankind, 1756-1758
Journalist and Jackal, 1759-1765
Gleams of Prosperity, 1765-1768
Present Discontents, 1768-1770
Squalls and Stagnation, 1770-1773
America and Bristol, 1774-1776
Waiting on Events, 1776-1779
Shears or Hatchets, 1779-1781
Paradise Lost, 1781-1784
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