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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... to the extent to which these are revealed in his surviving writings. 2. From the very beginning, just after the fall of the Bastille, events which seemed to so many a new dawn of liberty aroused Burke's forebodings, without however ...
... to the extent to which these are revealed in his surviving writings. 2. From the very beginning, just after the fall of the Bastille, events which seemed to so many a new dawn of liberty aroused Burke's forebodings, without however ...
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Tom Paine in Rights of Man had charged bribery; contemporary cartoons made play with the congenial theme; Marx, years afterwards was content to account for Burke's counter-revolutionary writing in this way.
Tom Paine in Rights of Man had charged bribery; contemporary cartoons made play with the congenial theme; Marx, years afterwards was content to account for Burke's counter-revolutionary writing in this way.
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... untrammelled eloquence about the Revolution in France. Frustrated, he was free.* The significance of Burke's quarrel with Dissenters in his writings on the Revolution† goes much deeper than the specific quarrel over party politics.
... untrammelled eloquence about the Revolution in France. Frustrated, he was free.* The significance of Burke's quarrel with Dissenters in his writings on the Revolution† goes much deeper than the specific quarrel over party politics.
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There is no need to doubt his denial; the whole tenor of his writing makes it clear that he was not a man likely to cherish one set of dogmas – or other abstractions – beneath a feigned belief in another set. His feelings are another ...
There is no need to doubt his denial; the whole tenor of his writing makes it clear that he was not a man likely to cherish one set of dogmas – or other abstractions – beneath a feigned belief in another set. His feelings are another ...
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Whence, then, comes the tremendous emotional force that animates not only the misleadingly named Reflections but all his writings on the Revolution, up to and including the fourth Letter on a Regicide Peace, left unfinished at his death ...
Whence, then, comes the tremendous emotional force that animates not only the misleadingly named Reflections but all his writings on the Revolution, up to and including the fourth Letter on a Regicide Peace, left unfinished at his death ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain ... Edmund Burke Vista de fragmentos - 1969 |
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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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