Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence

by David Bromwich

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David Bromwich's portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730-1797) is the first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. The public and private writings cannot be easily dissociated, nor should they be. For Burke--a thinker, writer, and politician--the principles of politics were merely those of morality enlarged. Bromwich reads Burke's career as an imperfect attempt...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674729706

ISBN13:9780674729704

Release Date:May 2014

Publisher:Belknap Press

Length:512 Pages

Weight:0.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Conservatism & Liberalism Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences

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