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Edmund Burke (/ b ɜːr k /; 12 January 1729 [2] – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of Parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party.
Although the Vindication is a satire aimed at the deism of Lord Bolingbroke, Burke confronted Bolingbroke not in the sphere of religion but in that of civil society and government, countering that his arguments against revealed religion could apply to all institutions. So close to Bolingbroke's style was the work that Burke's ironic intention ...
Burke wrote in the third person, and anonymously, though he made no secret that he was the author. The book bearing no author was a deliberate device which, together with being entitled an "appeal", was intended to have the effect of making the work look like an objective and impartial judgement between Burke and his opponents, rather than Burke presenting his own case. [7]
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise (2nd edition 1759) on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke.It was the first complete philosophical exposition for separating the beautiful and the sublime into their own respective rational categories.
A note-book of Edmund Burke : Poems, characters, essays and other sketches in the hands of Edmund and William Burke now print. for the 1st time in their entirety (Reprint ed.). Cambridge: Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-52124706-1. Insole, Christopher; Dwan, David, eds. (2012). The Cambridge companion to Edmund Burke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
An Address, to the Hon. Edmund Burke. from the Swinish Multitude was a widely reviewed pamphlet by James Parkinson published in 1793 under his pseudonym "Old Hubert" in response and criticism to Edmund Burke's use of the phrase "swinish multitude" in his 1790 book Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Edmund Burke, author of Letters on a Regicide Peace. Burke, in the third letter, attacks all of the British parties that desire peace with France, because France was intent on attacking Britain: [4] That day was, I fear, the fatal term of local patriotism. On that day, I fear, there was an end of that narrow scheme of relations called our ...
A profound critique of contemporary mass society, and a vivid and poetic image – not a program, an image – of how that society might better itself. […] in important respects, the twentieth century's own version of [Edmund Burke's] Reflections on the Revolution in France. […] Kirk was an artist, a visionary, almost a prophet. [5]