Edmund Burke, Volume I - 1730-1784

Zusatztext Lock solves the long-standing dispute over whether Burke was a natural-law theorist or a utilitarian. Klappentext Regarded as the 'father of conservatism', Edmund Burke was one of the most versatile and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. The first volume of F.P. Lock's acclaimed biography covers his Irish upbringing, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence. Zusammenfassung 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'.In this, the first of two volumes, F.P. Lock covers the years between 1730-1784, and describes Burke's Irish upbringing and education, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence. Lavishly illustrated, the book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Growing Up Irish, 1730-1744 2: From a Boy to a Man, 1744-1750 3: Getting Started, 1750-1757 4: A Philosophical Enquiry, 1757 5: Maps of Mankind, 1756-1765 6: Journalist and Jackal, 1758-1765 7: Gleams of Prosperity, 1765-1768 8: Present Discontents, 1768-1770 9: Squalls and Stagnation, 1770-1773 10: America and Bristol, 1774-1776 11: Waiting on Events, 1776-1779 12: Shears or Hatchets, 1779-1781 13: Paradise Lost, 1781-1784 ...

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• Authors: F. P. Lock, F.P. Lock, F.p. (Professor of English Lock
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9780199226634
• ISBN: 978-0-19-922663-4
• No. of pages: 616
• Series: Edmund Burke
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, European History, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, British Isles, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, C 1700 To C 1800