Reflections on the Revolution in France (Hackett Classics)

Title: Reflections on the Revolution in France (Hackett Classics)

Author: Burke, Edmund

ISBN: 9780872200203

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Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Publication Date: 1987-09-15

Number of Pages: 288

Weight: 0.2586 kg

Pocock is, without question, the leading historian of eighteenth-century British-American political thought. . . . All of his skills are brilliantly employed in the Introduction. . . . In addition to being the best treatment of Burke's thought in context, it is . . . the best and most concentrated presentation of Pocock's own view of the main contours of eighteenth-century political thought. . . . Finally, the Reflections and other texts by Burke are then woven into this rich fabric, thus providing the reader with an understanding of Burke's thought which is deeper and more complex (and surely more historically sensitive) than any available in the secondary literature. --James Tully, McGill University
Of all the scholars who currently study the history of Western political thought, no one is more fertile, eloquent, and ingenious than J. G. A. Pocock. --Keith Thomas, in the New York Review of Books