Reflections on the Revolution in France (Rethinking the Western Tradition) (Cambridge Library Collection - British & Irish History, 17th & 18th Centuries) (Rethinking the Western Tradition (YUP))

by Edmund Burke

Conor O'Brien (Editor) and Conor Cruise O'Brien (Introduction)

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Burke'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.
  • ISBN10 0140432043
  • ISBN13 9780140432046
  • Publish Date 30 September 1982 (first published 1 December 1953)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics