1st Edition

Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 28)

By F. P. Lock Copyright 1985
240 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France is one of the major texts in the western intellectual tradition. This book describes Burke’s political and intellectual world, stressing the importance of the idea of ‘property’ in Burke’s thought. It then focuses more closely on Burke’s personal and political situation in the late 1780s to explain how the Reflections came to be written. The... Read more

1. Burke’s World  2. The Making of the Reflections  3. Meaning and Interpretation 4. Rhetoric  5. Contemporary Reception  6. Critical History

Biography

Lock, F. P.