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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'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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Scottish Enlightenment, the moral sense, and the civilizing process
  • Burke and the Scottish Enlightenment
  • Wollstonecraft and the Scottish Enlightenment
  • "The most important of all revolutions"
  • Vindicating a revolution in morals and manners
  • Burke on democracy as the death of Western civilization
  • Wollstonecraft on democracy as the birth of Western civilization.