Reflections on the Revolution in France
Paperback Published on: 30/09/1982
£10.99
Synopsis
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.
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN: 9780140432046
- Number of pages: 416
- Weight: 303g
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 23 mm