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Many modern conservatives and feminists trace the roots of their ideologies, respectively, to Edmund Burke (17291797) and Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797), and a proper understanding of these two thinkers is therefore important as a framework for political debates today. According to Daniel ONeill, 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political science & theory

• Full title: Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate
• Subtitle: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy
• Author: Daniel I. O'Neill
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780271032016
• ISBN: 0271032014
• ID: 04564288
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Weight: 567 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. July 2007

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