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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... political career became dedicated to the problem of India and he took part in the investigation of the East India Company affair. The French Revolution, too, prompted one of his best-known works, Reflections on the Revolution in ...
... political career became dedicated to the problem of India and he took part in the investigation of the East India Company affair. The French Revolution, too, prompted one of his best-known works, Reflections on the Revolution in ...
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His books include Parnell and His Party (1957), To Katanga and Back (1962), Writers and Politics (1965), The United Nations Sacred Drama (with drawings by Feliks Topolski; 1968), States of Ireland (1972), Herod (1978), Neighbours: The ...
His books include Parnell and His Party (1957), To Katanga and Back (1962), Writers and Politics (1965), The United Nations Sacred Drama (with drawings by Feliks Topolski; 1968), States of Ireland (1972), Herod (1978), Neighbours: The ...
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Like Burke, Marx and Engels long and anxiously scrutinized the French Revolution, seeking in its course the secret of the future development of European and world politics. ‡ Like his, their imagination was deeply penetrated by the ...
Like Burke, Marx and Engels long and anxiously scrutinized the French Revolution, seeking in its course the secret of the future development of European and world politics. ‡ Like his, their imagination was deeply penetrated by the ...
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... your mind the merits of any Political Question from the Men who are concerned in it.... The power of bad men is no indifferent thing...' The letter concludes with praise of prudence and moderation: Prudence (in all things a Virtue, ...
... your mind the merits of any Political Question from the Men who are concerned in it.... The power of bad men is no indifferent thing...' The letter concludes with praise of prudence and moderation: Prudence (in all things a Virtue, ...
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... total political extinction of a great civilized Nation situated in the heart of this our Western system.* It was not very long before Burke, and after him many others, were struck by 'inconveniences' of a quite different character.
... total political extinction of a great civilized Nation situated in the heart of this our Western system.* It was not very long before Burke, and after him many others, were struck by 'inconveniences' of a quite different character.
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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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