Book Report : “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
By Edmund Burke
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SummaryWhen the writer and politician Edmund Burke published his Reflections on the Revolution in France in 1790, Britain was particularly focused on what had just happened on the other side of the Channel. At a time when radical societies were emerging in Britain and dissenters were about to claim new rights, France had just turned a page in history with the storming of the Bastille in 1789 and the abolition of the French Monarchy. As we know, the news of the French Revolution was at first received with enthusiasm in certain circles (and this might explain why Burke’s work was at first so criticized) before British public opinion changed dramatically, after the Terror began in 1792. In this second moment of post–revolutionary history, the ideas expressed by Burke in his Reflections came to embody the essence of British Political Culture. Written in the form of a letter ( Burke was answering a French family friend who had asked for his opinion on the recent events in France), Reflections on the Revolution in France does not follow a specific outline and is not divided in chapters, which in fact contributes to the impressionistic and perhaps even visionary dimension of the work.
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- In order to grasp the depth and significance of Burke's masterpiece, we will provide a general and critical synthesis of Reflections
- Published on 1, November 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, Reflections directly denounces dissenting radicals such as Joseph Priestley
- In the last hundred pages of his novel, Burke expresses his concern with the Revolutionary attitude towards the nation's religious life
- As we can see, Burke criticizes the French Revolution on many fronts
- There is much evidence that Burke's Reflections, even though they sold very well, received a very critical response from the public
- As we know, Reflections on the Revolution in France was widely read after its publication, but much of the immediate reaction to it was very negative
- To conclude this analysis of Reflections and their influence, one could argue that Burke's masterpiece presents a unique form of conservatism which must not be misinterpreted
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