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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Finally and especially, my thanks are due to my wife for her invaluable work on the annotation. The notes as they stand are our joint work. Professor Todd in presenting his definitive edition of the text of the Reflections spoke of ...
Finally and especially, my thanks are due to my wife for her invaluable work on the annotation. The notes as they stand are our joint work. Professor Todd in presenting his definitive edition of the text of the Reflections spoke of ...
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In a letter received while this edition was in proof, Prof. Thomas Copeland wrote, about Burke's father: 'Almost nothing is certain about him. Even his conforming in 1722. Some Richard Burke conformed then and it may have been he.
In a letter received while this edition was in proof, Prof. Thomas Copeland wrote, about Burke's father: 'Almost nothing is certain about him. Even his conforming in 1722. Some Richard Burke conformed then and it may have been he.
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The great edition was edited by the late great Thomas Copeland, himself a professor of English Literature, whose collaborators included both historians and teachers of English Literature. By the time of the publication of the final ...
The great edition was edited by the late great Thomas Copeland, himself a professor of English Literature, whose collaborators included both historians and teachers of English Literature. By the time of the publication of the final ...
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Generally speaking the edition is in the tradition of Copeland, to whose memory Langford dedicates it. It was no longer fashionable in the scholarly world to dismiss Burke as negligible, as the Namier school had done.
Generally speaking the edition is in the tradition of Copeland, to whose memory Langford dedicates it. It was no longer fashionable in the scholarly world to dismiss Burke as negligible, as the Namier school had done.
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J. G. A. Pocock's 1987 Indianapolis edition of Burke's Reflections is a landmark in Burke studies in America. Its fortypage introduction is a subtle and generally respectful exploration of the political and intellectual context of ...
J. G. A. Pocock's 1987 Indianapolis edition of Burke's Reflections is a landmark in Burke studies in America. Its fortypage introduction is a subtle and generally respectful exploration of the political and intellectual context of ...
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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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