Reflections on the Revolution in France: Edmund Burke - Brossura

Burke, Edmund

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ISBN 10: 0140432043 ISBN 13: 9780140432046

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1982

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Reflections on the Revolution in France, 9780140432046

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Informazioni sull?autore

Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College. A lifelong member of Parliament, Burke was the author of A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful, A Vindication of Natural Society, and Reflections on the Revolution in France.

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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.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1982
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0140432043
• ISBN 13: 9780140432046
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Contatto del produttore: {language_tag:it_IT,value:"Penguin Random House Ireland Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk"}