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Part 1. Life. An Irishman abroad, 1730-1759 ; In and out of power, 1759-1774 ; Ireland, America and King Mob, 1774-1780 ; India, economical reform and the King's madness, 1780-1789 ; Reflecting on revolution, 1789-1797 -- Part 2. Thought. Reputation, reason and the enlightenment project ; The social self ; Forging modern politics ; The rise of liberal individualism ; The recovery of value -- Conclusion: Burke today.;Both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have never been more relevant than in today's 'Big Society', as MP Jesse Norman explains. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke is both the greatest and most under-rated political thinker of the past three-hundred years. Born in Ireland in 1729, and greatly affected by its bigotry and extremes, his career constituted a lifelong struggle against the abuse of power. Amid the 18th century's golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon, Burke's controversial mixture of conservative and subversive theories made him first a marginal figure, and finally a revered theorist - a hero of the Romantics. He warned of the effects of British rule in Irela

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Author

Burke, Edmund;Norman, Jesse

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers;William Collins

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007489626

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir