Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France was the first sustained theoretical critique of the French Revolution; and is now recognised as the classic statement of modern conservatism. Reflections surveys the British political culture of traditionalism, gradualism and deference, and contrasts it with the French Revolutionaries' programme of appeal to abstract right, transformational change and popular agency. Ultimately Burke advocated a counterrevolutionary war and the restoration of the French monarchy. This accessible new edition brings together for the first time Burke's first and...

Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton.

'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.' The Guardian

Edmund Burke s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is one of the most important works of aesthetics ever published. Whilst many writers have taken up their pen to write of "the beautiful," Burke s subject here was the quality he uniquely distinguished as "the sublime" an all-consuming force beyond beauty that compelled terror as much as rapture in all who beheld it. It was an...