Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 330 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters
Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 330 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters
ISBN: 978-1-108-03474-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This volume on Edmund Burke (1729-97), published in 1879 in the first series of English Men of Letters, was written by the general editor of the series, John Morley (1838-1923). Himself a politician as well as an author, Morley had previously published a 'historical study' of Burke in 1867, but emphasises in an introductory note that this book 'is biographical rather than critical' and is intended as a narrative life. Morley himself was a radical in politics, and his interest in Burke, who he does not hesitate to characterise on occasion as a narrow-minded reactionary, may seem surprising, but he greatly admired his subject's independent political stance, which he describes as a mixture of utilitarian liberalism and historic conservatism, unfettered by abstract doctrine, and which he believed might again come to dominate political discourse in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
Weitere Infos & Material
Note; 1. Early life and first writings; 2. In Ireland - Parliament - Beaconsfield; 3. The constitutional struggle; 4. The Rockingham party - Paris - election at Bristol - the American war; 5. Economical reform - Burke in office - fall of his party; 6. Burke and his friends; 7. The new ministry - Warren Hastings - Burke's public position; 8. The French Revolution; 9. Burke and his party - progress of the Revolution - Ireland - last years; 10. Burke's literary character.
