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Edmund Burke - The Enlightenment and Revolution (Paperback)
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Edmund Burke - The Enlightenment and Revolution (Paperback)
Series: The Library of Conservative Thought
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Two centuries after Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the
Revolution in France, his name and reputation stand alongside
Locke, Montesquieu, and Hume - the other still-cited grand
political thinkers of the eighteenth century. For those great
nations that have fallen into what Burke called "the antagonist
world of madness, discord, vice, confusion and unavailing sorrow,"
the work of Burke supplies that sense of order, justice and freedom
the present age seems to require. This volume by Peter Stanlis has
grown out of almost four decades of studying Burke. Today,
Professor Stanlis is called by Russell Kirk "the leading American
authority on the political thought of the great conservative
reformer." The book is divided into three categories: Burke on law
and politics; Burke's criticism of Enlightenment rationalism and
sensibility; and Burke's theory of revolution and critique of the
English revolution of 1688. Stanlis' reasons' for linking Burke to
the English Revolution rather than the later, and admittedly more
decisive American and French Revolutions of his own time, is that
for Burke, that earlier event was the normative pivot for judging
how to make important changes in civil society. Indeed, even in his
writings on the contemporary revolutions of his time,. Stanlis
reminds us that Burke interpreted revolutionary events in France
and Americas through the prism of the bloodless Revolution of 1688.
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