Burke and Tocqueville on Liberty
ABSTRACT
This conference compared Burke and Tocqueville's thoughts on the foundations of liberty, political reform, and revolution. All conference readings come from published works of these two thinkers, and allowed for a comparison of their views on America and the French Revolution.
READING LIST
From Liberty Fund
Select Works of Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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By Edmund Burke
Compiled and with a Foreword and Notes by Francis Canavan
Originally published by Oxford University Press in the 1890s, the famed three-volume Payne edition of Select Works is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Faithfully reproduced in each volume are E. J. Payne’s notes and introductory essays. Francis Canavan, one of the great Burke scholars of…
Further Reflections on the Revolution in France
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By Edmund Burke
Edited by Daniel E. Ritchie
In his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Edmund Burke excoriated French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France’s venerable institutions and way of life. But his war against the French intelligentsia did not end there, and Burke continued to take pen in hand against the Jacobins until his…
Select Works of Edmund Burke: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America
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By Edmund Burke
Compiled and with a Foreword and Notes by Francis Canavan
This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought.
Volume 1, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, contains Burke’s brilliant defense of the American colonists’ complaints of British policy, including…
Additional Readings
Burke, Edmund. Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 4: Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by and compiled by Francis Canavan. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 1999.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. The Old Regime and the Revolution: The complete text. Edited by François Furet and Françoise Mélonio. Translated by Alan Kahan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Alexis de Tocqueville's Memoir on Pauperism. Translated by Seymour Drescher. London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit, 1997.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America, Volume 1 [English Edition]. Edited by Eduardo Nolla. Translated by James T. Schleifer. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2012.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America, Volume 2 [English edition]. Edited by Eduardo Nolla. Translated by James T. Schleifer. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2012.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville, Vol. I. London: Macmillan, 1861.