Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Edmund BurkeFurther Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN: 9780865970984
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A selected collection of Burke's later writings on the French Revolution, illuminating important dimensions of Burke's political and social philosophy beyond his Reflections on the revolution in France.
REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Reflections on the Revolution in France by an English-Irish politician Edmund Burke is a philosophico-political treatise that widely criticizes the revolutionary method programms for rebuilding the society. It was written in the middle of the French Revolution in 1790. The treatise caused a wide social discussion, in particular because of the parallel oratorical activity of Burke in the Parlainment and as a bright expression of the ideology of conservatism. In his work Burke criticized sharply and categorically the French Revolution as an attempt to destroy the entrenched social order and change it into a theoretic, and that is why inviable, scheme of social relations, which was developed by encyclopedic philosophers.
Select Works
Author: Edmund BurkeAn Analysis of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
Author: Riley QuinnPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351351001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Edmund Burke’s 1791 Reflections on the Revolution in France is a strong example of how the thinking skills of analysis and reasoning can support even the most rhetorical of arguments. Often cited as the foundational work of modern conservative political thought, Burke’s Reflections is a sustained argument against the French Revolution. Though Burke is in many ways not interested in rational close analysis of the arguments in favour of the revolution, he points out a crucial flaw in revolutionary thought, upon which he builds his argument. For Burke, that flaw was the sheer threat that revolution poses to life, property and society. Sceptical about the utopian urge to utterly reconstruct society in line with rational principles, Burke argued strongly for conservative progress: a continual slow refinement of government and political theory, which could move forward without completely overturning the old structures of state and society. Old state institutions, he reasoned, might not be perfect, but they work well enough to keep things ticking along. Any change made to improve them, therefore, should be slow, not revolutionary. While `Burke’s arguments are deliberately not reasoned in the ‘rational’ style of those who supported the revolution, they show persuasive reasoning at its very best.
Edmund Burke's Reflections On the Revolution in France
Author: John WhalePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719057878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This is a collection of essays on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. The contributors consider its reception, its legacy to English and Irish writers and its impact within contemporary cultural and critical theory.
A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly;
Author: Edmund BurkeBurke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 28)
Author: F. P. LockPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135026548
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is one of the major texts in the western intellectual tradition. This book describes Burke’s political and intellectual world, stressing the importance of the idea of ‘property’ in Burke’s thought. It then focuses more closely on Burke’s personal and political situation in the late 1780s to explain how the Reflections came to be written. The central part of the study discusses the meaning and interpretation of the work. In the last part of the book the author surveys the pamphlet controversy which the Reflections generated, paying particular attention to the most famous of the replies, Tom Paine’s Rights of Man. It also examines the subsequent reputation of the Reflections from the 1790s to the modern day, noting how often Burke has fascinated even writers who have disliked his politics.
Revolutionary Writings
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521843936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
An accessible and annotated edition of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France with the first Letter on a Regicide Peace.
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe
Author: Christopher CaldwellPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385529244
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
In light of cultural crises such as the Danish cartoon controversy and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris, Christopher Caldwell’s incisive perspective has never been more timely or indispensible. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe is destined to become the classic work on how Muslim immigration permanently reshaped the West. This provocative and unflinching analysis of Europe’s unexpected influx of immigrants investigates the increasingly prominent Muslim populations actively shaping the future of the continent. Muslims dominate or nearly dominate many important European cities, including Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Strasbourg and Marseille, the Paris suburbs and East London, and in those cities Islam has challenged the European way of life at every turn, becoming, in effect, an “adversary culture.” In Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Caldwell examines the anger of natives and newcomers alike. He exposes the strange ways in which welfare states interact with Third World customs, the anti-Americanism that brings European natives and Muslim newcomers together, and the arguments over women and sex that drive them apart. He considers the appeal of sharia, “resistance,” and jihad to a second generation that is more alienated from Europe than the first, and addresses a crisis of faith among native Europeans that leaves them with a weak hand as they confront the claims of newcomers.