The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate : Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy /
Many modern conservatives and feminists trace the roots of their ideologies, respectively, to Edmund Burke (1729-1797) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), and a proper understanding of these two thinkers is therefore important as a framework for political debates today.According to Daniel O'Ne...
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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Scottish Enlightenment, the Moral Sense, and the Civilizing Process
- 2 Burke and the Scottish Enlightenment
- 3 Wollstonecraft and the Scottish Enlightenment
- 4 "The Most Important of All Revolutions"
- 5 Vindicating a Revolution in Morals and Manners
- 6 Burke on Democracy as the Death of Western Civilization
- 7 Wollstonecraft on Democracy as the Birth of Western Civilization
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index