Edmund Burke: 1730-1784

by F.P. Lock

Edmund Burke (1730-1797) was one of the most profound, versatile, and accomplished thinkers of the eighteenth century. Born and educated in Dublin, he moved to London to study law, but remained to make a career in English politics, completing A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) before entering the political arena. A Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, his speeches are still read and studied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199226636
• ISBN13: 9780199226634
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"