柏克(Edmund Burke,1729—1797年)是18世纪下半叶英国最享盛名的政治理论家,《法国革命论》则是他最享盛名的一部作品。这本书写成于法国大革命爆发之次岁,它和大革命前两年英国作家扬(Arthur Young)所写的《法国旅行记》同为研究法国大革命的当时英国两部最重要的第一手历史文献。 柏克生于爱尔兰首府都柏林的一...
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in company with William Burke. There was a lasting intimacy between the two namesakes, and they seem to have been involved together in some important passages of their lives; but we have Edmund Burke’s authority for believing that they were probably not kinsmen. The seclusion...
Edmund Burke, British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker who was important in the history of political theory.