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Edmund Burke
- A Genius Reconsidered
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Publisher's Summary
He lucidly unfolds Burke's philosophy, showing how it revealed itself in concrete historical situations in the 18th century and how Burke, through his philosophy, "speaks to our age".
This volume makes vivid the four great struggles in the life of Burke: his work for conciliation with the American colonies; his involvement in cutting down the domestic power of George III; his prosecution of Warren Hastings, the Governor-General of India; and his resistance to Jacobinism, the French Revolution's "armed doctrine."
In each of these great phases of his public life, Burke fought with passionate eloquence and relentless logic for justice and for the proper balance of order and freedom. With sure instinct born of his sympathy and understanding, Russell Kirk gives us the incisive quotation, the illuminating highlight, the moving, all-too-human elements that bring Burke and his times to vivid life.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-08-17
Wonderful book
As always, Russell Kirk writes a brilliant text. This made the more worthwhile by its marvellous subject. If justice can be done to the genius and wisdom of Edmund Burke, this very nearly achieves it. The only drawback is the reader – too fast, and peculiar pronunciation. But I don’t want to over exaggerate my criticism. This audiobook wonderful listen.
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