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Edmund Burke - The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics (Paperback)
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Edmund Burke - The Visionary Who Invented Modern Politics (Paperback)
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Loot Price R297
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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for
non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke’s beliefs
have never been more relevant, 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
Ireland, the loss of the American colonies, and most famously, he
foresaw the disastrous consequences of revolution in France. This
he predicted, would trigger extremism, terror and the atomisation
of society – a profound analysis that continues to resonate
today. In this absorbing new biography Conservative MP Jesse Norman
gives us Burke anew, vividly depicting his dazzling intellect,
imagination and empathy against the rich tapestry of 18th century
Europe. Burke’s wisdom, Norman shows, applies well beyond the
times of empire to the conventional democratic politics practised
in Britain and America today. We cannot understand the defects of
the modern world, or modern politics, without him.
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