Conor Cruise O’Brien explores Burke’s hostility to “theory,” Darrin McMahon considers Burke’s characterization of the French Enlightenment, Jack Rakove contrasts the views of Burke and American constitutional framers on the process of drawing up constitutions, and Alan Wolfe investigates Burke, the social sciences, and liberal democracy. Contributors to the book examine various provocative aspects of Burke’s thought. The volume sets the Reflections in the context of Western political thought, highlights its ongoing relevance to contemporary debates, and provides abundant critical notes, a glossary, and a glossary-index to ensure its accessibility. His most influential work, Reflections on the Revolution in France, opposed the core values of his contemporary revolutionaries and predicted that the French. Turner and four lively critical essays by leading scholars. This outstanding new edition of the Reflections presents Burke’s famous text along with a historical introduction by Frank M. Edmund Burke’s analysis of revolutionary change established him as the chief framer of modern European conservative political thought. The most enduring work of its time, Reflections on the Revolution in France was written in 1790 and has remained in print ever since. A new edition of Burke’s masterpiece accompanied by insightful essays that illuminate the perennial appeal of this work In attacking the Revolution in France, Burke constructed a rogues’ gallery for French politicians, and stocked it also with quite a number of French thinkers.
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