Reflections on the Revolution in France

by Edmund Burke; Edited by Frank M. Turner; With essays by Darrin M. McMahon, ConorCruise O'Brien, Jack N. Rakove, and Alan Wolfe

• ISBN13: 9780300099799
• ISBN10: 0300099797
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-12-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that follow the mismanagement of change. Written for a generation presented with challenges of terrible proportions--the Industrial, American, and French Revolutions, to name the most obvious--Burke's Reflections of the Revolution in France displays an acute awareness of how high political stakes can be, as well as a keen ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	ix
Introduction Edmund Burke: The Political Actor Thinking	xi
Frank M. Turner
Reflections on the Revolution in France	3	(208)
Edmund Burke
Rethinking Reflections on the Revolution in France	211	(2)
Edmund Burke: Prophet Against the Tyranny of the Politics of Theory	213	(20)
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Edmund Burke and the Literary Cabal: A Tale of Two Enlightenments	233	(15)
Darrin M. McMahon
Why American Constitutionalism Worked	248	(20)
Jack N. Rakove
Democracy, Social Science, and Rationality: Reflections on Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France	268	(23)
Alan Wolfe
Suggested Readings	291	(2)
Glossary-Index	293