Reflections on the Revolution in France (Hackett Classics) - Hardcover

Burke, Edmund

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0872200213 ISBN 13: 9780872200210

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 1987

Synopsis

John Pocock's edition of Burke's Reflections is two classics in one: Burke's Reflections and Pocock's reflections on Burke and the eighteenth century.

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Product Description

Includes 'Burke's Reflections' and 'Pocock's Reflections on Burke and the Eighteenth Century'.

Review

Pocock is, without question, the leading historian of eighteenth-century British-American political thought. . . . All of his skills are brilliantly employed in the Introduction. . . . In addition to being the best treatment of Burke's thought in context, it is . . . the best and most concentrated presentation of Pocock's own view of the main contours of eighteenth-century political thought. . . . Finally, the "Reflections" and other texts by Burke are then woven into this rich fabric, thus providing the reader with an understanding of Burke's thought which is deeper and more complex (and surely more historically sensitive) than any available in the secondary literature. --James Tully, McGill University

Of all the scholars who currently study the history of Western political thought, no one is more fertile, eloquent, and ingenious than J. G. A. Pocock. --Keith Thomas, in the "New York Review of Books"

Pocock is, without question, the leading historian of eighteenth-century British-American political thought. . . . All of his skills are brilliantly employed in the Introduction. . . . In addition to being the best treatment of Burke's thought in context, it is . . . the best and most concentrated presentation of Pocock's own view of the main contours of eighteenth-century political thought. . . . Finally, the Reflections and other texts by Burke are then woven into this rich fabric, thus providing the reader with an understanding of Burke's thought which is deeper and more complex (and surely more historically sensitive) than any available in the secondary literature. --James Tully, McGill University

Of all the scholars who currently study the history of Western political thought, no one is more fertile, eloquent, and ingenious than J. G. A. Pocock. --Keith Thomas, in the New York Review of Books

Edition details

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872200213
• ISBN 13: 9780872200210
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Pocock J. G. A.