The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy

The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate

Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy

2007 • 291 pages

Many modern conservatives and feminists trace the roots of their ideologies, respectively, to Edmund Burke (1729-1797) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). Here, according to the author Burke is misconstrued if viewed as mainly providing a warning about the dangers of attempting to turn utopian visions into political reality.


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