nov 1, 1790 - Burke: 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'

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'Reflections on the Revolution in France' is a political pamphlet written by the Irish statesman Edmund Burke and published in November 1790.

One of the best-known intellectual attacks against the French Revolution, Reflections is a defining tract of modern conservatism as well as an important contribution to international theory. Above all else, it has been one of the defining efforts of Edmund Burke's transformation of "traditionalism into a self-conscious and fully conceived political philosophy of conservatism".

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