Reflections on the Revolution in FranceBurke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change - and deplores the influence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain. Reflections on the Revolution in France is now widely regarded as a classic statement of conservative political thought, and is one of the eighteenth century's great works of political rhetoric. |
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This is that Burke, in his counter-revolutionary writings, is partially liberating – in a permissible way – a suppressed revolutionary part of his own personality. These writings – which appear at first sight to be an integral defence ...
This is that Burke, in his counter-revolutionary writings, is partially liberating – in a permissible way – a suppressed revolutionary part of his own personality. These writings – which appear at first sight to be an integral defence ...
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... to hear of the study of Burke: “Your perfervidum ingenium Scoti does not need being touched with a live coal from that Irish altar.”'† But if, amid the relative political stability of nineteenthcentury Britain, Burke could appear ...
... to hear of the study of Burke: “Your perfervidum ingenium Scoti does not need being touched with a live coal from that Irish altar.”'† But if, amid the relative political stability of nineteenthcentury Britain, Burke could appear ...
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A little earlier Mansfield had written what appears to be the first frontal attack on Namier's denigration of Burke. It was written with bracing astringency: 'Namier's authority is in great part based upon his seeming care in his ...
A little earlier Mansfield had written what appears to be the first frontal attack on Namier's denigration of Burke. It was written with bracing astringency: 'Namier's authority is in great part based upon his seeming care in his ...
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The institution of this society appears to be of a charitable, and so far of a laudable, nature: it was intended for the circulation, at the expence of the members, of many books, which few others would be at the expence of buying; ...
The institution of this society appears to be of a charitable, and so far of a laudable, nature: it was intended for the circulation, at the expence of the members, of many books, which few others would be at the expence of buying; ...
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| Título | Reflections on the Revolution in France Penguin English library |
| Autor | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | Conor O'Brien |
| Editor | Penguin UK, 1982 |
| ISBN | 0141907886, 9780141907888 |
| Largo | 416 páginas |
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