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.
Author: Edmund Burke
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 12/16/1982
Series: English Library
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.06w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780140432046
Language: English
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