The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy
ISBN-13:
9780271032016
ISBN-10:
0271032014
Edition:
1
Author:
Daniel I. ONeill
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
Penn State University Press
Format:
Hardcover
296 pages
Category:
Authors
,
Arts & Literature
,
France
,
European History
,
Modern
,
Philosophy
,
Political
,
Feminist Theory
,
Women's Studies
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ISBN-13:
9780271032016
ISBN-10:
0271032014
Edition:
1
Author:
Daniel I. ONeill
Publication date:
2007
Publisher:
Penn State University Press
Format:
Hardcover
296 pages
Category:
Authors
,
Arts & Literature
,
France
,
European History
,
Modern
,
Philosophy
,
Political
,
Feminist Theory
,
Women's Studies
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The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy (ISBN-13: 9780271032016 and ISBN-10: 0271032014), written by authors
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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’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.
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