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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Morley's biography provides a worthwhile overview of Burke's career, and is well worth reading. There is, however, an important caveat. One of the most significant features of Burke's political life was the speed with which he recognised the horrors being ushered in with the French Revolution. His 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' is perhaps his most important work, and remains in print today. Morley, writing in the late 19th century, is sympathetic to the French insurgents and dismisses the 'Reflections'. He contrasts Burke's condemnation of events in France unfavourably with his support of the American Revolution, and doesn't seem to recognise the enormous difference in character between the two conflicts. It is sad to think of Burke's sound judgement being lost on the very generation who would live to see the same horrors enacted in Russia. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Pertany a aquestes sèriesEnglish Men of Letters (Burke)
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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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