Défense des droits des hommes
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- APAMary Wollstonecraft. (n.d.). A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund B [Défense des droits des hommes]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/mary-wollstonecraft/a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-men-in-a-letter-to-the-right-honourable-edmund-b
- MLAMary Wollstonecraft. A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund B [Défense des droits des hommes]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/mary-wollstonecraft/a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-men-in-a-letter-to-the-right-honourable-edmund-b.
- ChicagoMary Wollstonecraft. A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund B [Défense des droits des hommes]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/mary-wollstonecraft/a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-men-in-a-letter-to-the-right-honourable-edmund-b.
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De quoi il s'agit
Défense des droits des hommes (1790) : la première réponse imprimée à Burke sur la Révolution française.
Contexte et histoire
Elle a paru quelques semaines après les Réflexions de Burke et avant la réponse de Paine. Wollstonecraft s'en prend à la défense de la tradition et de l'héritage, et au passage au sentimentalisme de Burke, où elle voit une façon de faire passer le privilège pour de la beauté. Deux ans plus tard elle tournera le même argument vers la condition des femmes.
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a superstitious age saw the clergy triumphant: the people, for whom chiefly government was instituted, and who chiefly deserve consideration, were the weakest of the whole.’ And just before that most auspicious æra, the fourteenth century, during the reign of Richard II. whose total incapacity to manage the reins of power, and keep in subjection his haughty Barons, rendered him a mere cypher; the House of Commons, to whom he was obliged frequently to apply, not only for subsidies but assistance to quell the insurrections that the contempt in which he was held naturally produced, gradually rose into power; for whenever they granted supplies to the King, they demanded in return, though it bore the name of petition, a confirmation, or the renewal of former charters, which had been infringed, and even utterly disregarded by the King and his seditious Barons, who principally held their independence of the crown by force of arms, and the encouragement which they gave to robbers and villains, who infested the country, and lived by rapine and violence. To what dreadful extremities were the poorer sort reduced, their property, the fruit of their industry, being entirely at the disposal of their lords, who were so many petty tyrants! In return for the supplies and assistance which the king received from the commons, they demanded privileges, which Edward, in his distress for money to prosecute the numerous wars in which he was engaged during the greater part of his reign, was constrained to grant them; so that by degrees they rose to power, and became a check on both king and nobles.…