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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... and social substance: Burke provides, in the Reflections* and elsewhere, some of the best examples of that aristocratic critique of the bourgeoisie, to which the Communist Manifesto allows a provisional and sardonic welcome.
... and social substance: Burke provides, in the Reflections* and elsewhere, some of the best examples of that aristocratic critique of the bourgeoisie, to which the Communist Manifesto allows a provisional and sardonic welcome.
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Long ago, at the outset of his career – as a condition indeed of having a career at all – Burke had cast in his lot with an important section of the men of rank and property. He was himself one of the most notable examples of the ...
Long ago, at the outset of his career – as a condition indeed of having a career at all – Burke had cast in his lot with an important section of the men of rank and property. He was himself one of the most notable examples of the ...
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... transfer of the king to Paris (October 1789) to his attempted escape (June 1791) is one of the quietest in the Revolution: the 'initial tumults' are over; constitution-making is in progress, with much talk of the English example; ...
... transfer of the king to Paris (October 1789) to his attempted escape (June 1791) is one of the quietest in the Revolution: the 'initial tumults' are over; constitution-making is in progress, with much talk of the English example; ...
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The most notable example of this in the Reflections is the famous passage about the Queen of France (pp. 169–70) which many have been taught to think of as typical Burke. It is typical, but of a manner that Burke employs very sparingly.
The most notable example of this in the Reflections is the famous passage about the Queen of France (pp. 169–70) which many have been taught to think of as typical Burke. It is typical, but of a manner that Burke employs very sparingly.
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... not in pretending an emotion which is not there, but in deciding how much of a genuinely-felt emotion to release publicly; how far to let oneself go. In certain circumstances – had the Whigs been in office, for example, ...
... not in pretending an emotion which is not there, but in deciding how much of a genuinely-felt emotion to release publicly; how far to let oneself go. In certain circumstances – had the Whigs been in office, for example, ...
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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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