Gateway to the French Revolution - Select Writings by Edmund Burke, Friedrich Gentz, and Joseph de Maistre

The legacy of the French Revolution critiqued by the most important thinkers of the day.

Gateway to the French Revolution features voices critical of the French Revolution and its aftershocks. Edmund Burke’s critique of the Revolution is widely known and set into motion the development of political Conservatism. Also decrying the excesses of the Terror is Friedrich Gentz, a lesser-known Austrian diplomat who would become an architect of European peace after Napoleon’s failed ambitions, and Joseph de Maistre, a Savoiard nobleman whose own reflections would form a current of counter-revolutionary reactionary that has continues to have implications in our contemporary world.

Info autore

Russell Kirk (1918-1994), the father of intellectual conservatism in America, was the author of more than thirty books, including The Conservative Mind, Eliot and His Age, and The Roots of American Order. His legacy lives on in the work of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, based at his ancestral home in Mecosta, Michigan.

Riassunto

The legacy of the French Revolution critiqued by the most important thinkers of the day.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, Friedrich Gentz
• Con la collaborazione di: Anna Vincenzi (Editore), Russell Kirk (Introduzione), Anna Vincenzi (Prefazione)
• Editore: Simon & Schuster UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.10.2024
• EAN: 9781684514502
• ISBN: 978-1-68451-450-2
• Pagine: 456
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Peso: 363 g
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie