Reflections on the Revolution in FranceBroadview Press, 22 wrz 2021 - 306 This abridgement of Reflections on the Revolution in France preserves the dynamism of Edmund Burke’s polemic while excising a number of detail-laden passages that may be of less interest to modern readers. Brian R. Clack’s introduction offers a compelling overview of the text and explores the consistency and coherence of Burke’s views on revolution. Burke’s critique of revolutionary politics is illuminated further by the extensive supplementary materials collected in a number of themed appendices. |
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... constitutional continuity; an appeal to prescription as the justification for institutions (namely, that they have existed “time out of mind”); the feeling that society is an organism, upon which reckless experiments should not be made ...
... constitutional continuity; an appeal to prescription as the justification for institutions (namely, that they have existed “time out of mind”); the feeling that society is an organism, upon which reckless experiments should not be made ...
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... constitution and casts himself as the spokesman for the people of England, enunciating the balanced features of their settled and cherished mode of life as opposed to the turbulent, sophistical, and ruin-bound innovations of the French ...
... constitution and casts himself as the spokesman for the people of England, enunciating the balanced features of their settled and cherished mode of life as opposed to the turbulent, sophistical, and ruin-bound innovations of the French ...
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... constitution is another thing altogether, and it requires more skill and experience than a single person or generation can ever possess. This insight was confirmed, Burke held, by the new system in France, which he had already declared ...
... constitution is another thing altogether, and it requires more skill and experience than a single person or generation can ever possess. This insight was confirmed, Burke held, by the new system in France, which he had already declared ...
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... constitution. It is a genius at random, and not a genius constituted. But he must say something.—He has therefore mounted in the air like a 1 See Karl Marx, Capital (1867; Oxford UP, 1999), 197. 2 Burke, letter to the Earl of Charlemont ...
... constitution. It is a genius at random, and not a genius constituted. But he must say something.—He has therefore mounted in the air like a 1 See Karl Marx, Capital (1867; Oxford UP, 1999), 197. 2 Burke, letter to the Earl of Charlemont ...
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... constitution of the executive power and of the judicature, indeed across the entirety of French society. He lambasts these political experiments as being against experience, against custom, and against nature. “I believe it will be ...
... constitution of the executive power and of the judicature, indeed across the entirety of French society. He lambasts these political experiments as being against experience, against custom, and against nature. “I believe it will be ...
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Background Materials | 159 |
Burke and the American Revolution | 182 |
Burkes First Responses to the French Revolution | 195 |
Burkes Later Thoughts on the Revolution | 207 |
Burke on Reform and Innovation | 225 |
Burke on Rousseau and The Philosophy of Vanity | 243 |
Contemporary Responses to Burkes Censure of the French Revolution | 252 |
Delivered Over to Infamy at the End of a Long Life | 289 |
Works Cited and Select Bibliography | 296 |
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