Reflections on the Revolution in France
Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values.
Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140432046 (0140432043)
ASIN: 140432043
Publish date: December 16th 1982
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Politics,
Philosophy,
France,
Political Science,
European History,
18th Century,
French Revolution
This is a work which I had long planned to read for two reasons. The first was its historic importance, as Burke's book has long been held up as an important early critique of the then-ongoing French Revolution. The other was its citation as an ur-text of modern Anglo-American conservatism, one of t...
AcknowledgementsIntroductionBurke's Prefatory Note--Reflections on the Revolution in FranceNotesBibliographical NoteCurriculum Vitae of Edmund Burke
A turgid, incoherent, mean-spirited confusion of barely readable proto-teabaggery and ancient dogmatic douchebaggery. Written in the form of a letter to a Frenchman, without captions or other markers of manifest internal organization. Best part of this volume is the academic's lengthy introduction...
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