Reflexiones sobre la Revolución francesa
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Texto limpio
- Extensión:
- ~130.000 palabras · 611 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAEdmund Burke. (n.d.). Reflexiones sobre la Revolución francesa. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france
- MLAEdmund Burke. "Reflexiones sobre la Revolución francesa." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france.
- ChicagoEdmund Burke. Reflexiones sobre la Revolución francesa. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/edmund-burke/reflections-on-the-revolution-in-france.
De qué trata
La crítica de Burke a la Revolución francesa, escrita en 1790, cuando el Terror aún no había llegado: el texto fundacional del conservadurismo moderno.
Contexto e historia
Tiene forma de carta a un joven francés. El argumento de fondo no es que la monarquía sea sagrada, sino que una sociedad es un tejido de hábitos, lealtades e instituciones que nadie ha diseñado y que nadie puede rehacer desde cero con un plan racional sin destruirla. De ahí su desconfianza de los «derechos del hombre» abstractos, frente a los derechos concretos que una tradición ha ido ganando. Vaticinó que la Revolución acabaría en un general que lo mandara todo. Paine le respondió con «Los derechos del hombre» y Wollstonecraft con la «Vindicación de los derechos de los hombres»; las tres obras están en el corpus y vale la pena leerlas juntas.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
It may not be unnecessary to inform the reader, that the following Reflections had their origin in a correspondence between the Author and a very young gentleman at Paris, who did him the honour of desiring his opinion upon the important transactions, which then, and ever since, have so much occupied the attention of all men. An answer was written some time in the month of October 1789; but it was kept back upon prudential considerations. That letter is alluded to in the beginning of the following sheets. It has been since forwarded to the person to whom it was addressed. The reasons for the delay in sending it were assigned in a short letter to the same gentleman. This produced on his part a new and pressing application for the Author's sentiments. The Author began a second and more full discussion on the subject. This lie had some thoughts of publishing early in the last spring; but the matter gaining upon him, he found that what he had undertaken not only far exceeded the measure of a letter, but that its importance required rather a more detailed consideration than at that time he had any leisure to bestow upon it. However, having thrown down his first thoughts in the form of a letter, and indeed, when he sat down to write, having intended it for a private letter, be found it difficult to change the form of address, when his sentiments had grown into a greater extent, and had received another direction.…