The Burke-Wollstonecraft debate : savagery, civilization, and democracy /

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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'N...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Neill, Daniel I., 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Burke, Edmund, > 1729-1797.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, > 1759-1797.
Burke, Edmund, > 1729-1797
Wollstonecraft, Mary, > 1759-1797
1789-1799
Enlightenment > Scotland.
Siècle des Lumières > Écosse.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Enlightenment
War > Causes
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Causes.
France
Scotland
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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'Neill, Burke is misconstrued if viewed as mainly providing a warning about the dangers of attempting to turn utopian visions into political reality, while Wollstonecraft is far more than just a proponent of extending the public sphere rights of man to include women. Rather, at the heart of their differences lies a dispute over democracy as a force tending toward savagery (Burke) or toward civilization (Wollstonecraft). Their debate over the meaning of the French Revolution is the place where these differences are elucidated, but the real key to understanding what this debate is about is its relation to the intellectual tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment, whose language of politics provided the discursive framework within and against which Burke and Wollstonecraft developed their own unique ideas about what was involved in the civilizing process.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 291 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index.
ISBN:9780271034867
0271034866
9780271054735
0271054735
0271049715
9780271049717
9780271053066
0271053062

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