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The intellectual life of Edmund Burke : from the sublime and beautiful to American independence /

The first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought as it emerges in both his major writings and private correspondence. The public and private writings cannot be easily dissociated, nor should they be. For Burke's "a thinker, writer, and politician." The principle...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bromwich, David, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early ambition and the theory of society
  • The sublime and beautiful
  • The Wilkes crisis and thoughts on the cause of the present discontents
  • The American war
  • The loss of the empire in the west
  • Democracy, representation, and the Gordon riots
  • In defense of politics.