Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace

by Edmund Burke

Book Overview

Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France was the first sustained theoretical critique of the French Revolution; and is now recognised as the classic statement of modern conservatism. Reflections surveys the British political culture of traditionalism, gradualism and deference, and contrasts it with the French Revolutionaries' programme of appeal to abstract right, transformational change and popular agency. Ultimately Burke advocated a counterrevolutionary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521843936
• ISBN13: 9780521843935
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 419 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.6"