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A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund B

Mary Wollstonecraft

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  • APAMary Wollstonecraft. (n.d.). A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund B. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/mary-wollstonecraft/a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-men-in-a-letter-to-the-right-honourable-edmund-b
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De què tracta

«Vindicació dels drets dels homes» (1790): la primera resposta impresa a Burke sobre la Revolució Francesa.

Context i història

Va sortir a les poques setmanes de les «Reflexions» de Burke i abans que la de Paine. Wollstonecraft hi ataca la defensa de la tradició i de l'herència, i de passada el sentimentalisme de Burke, que ella llegeix com una manera de fer passar el privilegi per bellesa. Dos anys després aplicaria el mateix argument a les dones.

Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.

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Mr. Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution first engaged my attention as the transient topic of the day; and reading it more for amusement than information, my indignation was roused by the sophistical arguments, that every moment crossed me, in the questionable shape of natural feelings and common sense. Many pages of the following letter were the effusions of the moment; but, swelling imperceptibly to a considerable size, the idea was suggested of publishing a short vindication of _the Rights of Men_. Not having leisure or patience to follow this desultory writer through all the devious tracks in which his fancy has started fresh game, I have confined my strictures, in a great measure, to the grand principles at which he has levelled many ingenious arguments in a very specious garb. A LETTER TO THE _Right Honourable EDMUND BURKE_.…

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