Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Edmund Burke

Tina Ta, Dis 1H

-greatest political theorist
-author of Reflections on the Revolution in France
-a letter in reply to Price's Discourse
-involved mob's violence towards the French king and queen
-favors monarchy, aristocracy, property, and hereditary succession
-bestseller with thirteen thousand copies sold
-earlier supported Americans' fight for independence, but believed the French Revolution a catastrophe

(Norton Anthology: vol D, p. 152)

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