The Burke-Wollstonecraft debate
Subtitle: savagery, civilization, and democracy
By: Daniel I. O'Neill.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271032016
Subjects: Burke, Edmund, -- 1729-1797.; Wollstonecraft, Mary, -- 1759-1797.; Enlightenment -- Scotland.; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Causes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: value: The Scottish Enlightenment, the moral sense, and the civilizing process; value: Burke and the Scottish Enlightenment; value: Wollstonecraft and the Scottish Enlightenment; value: "The most important of all revolutions"; value: Vindicating a revolution in morals and manners; value: Burke on democracy as the death of Western civilization; value: Wollstonecraft on democracy as the birth of Western civilization.