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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Neill, Daniel I. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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