Edmund Burke The First Conservative

Name: Edmund Burke The First Conservative
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ISBN: 9780465058976

ISBN-10: 0465058973

ISBN-13: 9780465058976

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jesse Norman

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Edmund Burke is the greatest and perhaps also the most underrated political thinker of the past three hundred years. A brilliant 18th century political theorist, philosopher, and statesman, Burke was a fierce champion of human rights and the Anglo-American constitutional tradition, and a lifelong campaigner against arbitrary power. Burke’s enormous importance has been largely forgotten in recent years, but as Jesse Norman, MP and scholar of political theory, argues in this penetrating biography, we cannot understand modern politics without him. Burke offered a compelling critique of liberal individualism, and laid the groundwork for contemporary conservatism by putting forth a vision of…

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List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 5/21/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



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



Thought



Reputation, Reason and the Enlightenment Project



The Social Self



Forging Modem Politics



The Rise of Liberal Individualism



The Recovery of Value


Conclusion: Burke Today


Notes


Select Bibliography


Acknowledgements


Index