Reflections on the Revolution in France

What it's about

Written as a long letter to a young Frenchman, Burke's attack on the French Revolution defends inherited institutions, gradual reform and the wisdom stored in custom against government built on abstract rights. It provoked replies from Thomas Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft and is a founding text of modern conservatism. Taken from volume three of his collected Works.

Who it's for

- Readers who want the founding argument of modern conservatism - Anyone interested in the French Revolution as it looked at the time - Readers who plan to pair it with Paine's Rights of Man

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