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Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
David Bromwich's portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730-1797) is the first biography to attend to the complexity...
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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 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. However multiple and various Burke's campaigns, a single-mindedness of commitment always drove him.
Burke is commonly seen as the father of modern conservatism. Bromwich reveals the matter to be far more subtle and interesting. Burke was a defender of the rights of disfranchised minorities and an opponent of militarism. His politics diverge from those of any modern party, but all parties would be wiser for acquaintance with his writing and thoughts.
Author: David Bromwich
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 05/06/2014
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780674729704
Award: PROSE - Honorable Mention
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2014 pg. 83
New York Times Book Review 08/24/2014 pg. 26
Choice 01/01/2015 pg. 891
New York Review of Books 03/05/2015 pg. 35
About the Author
Bromwich, David: - David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University.
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