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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Disciplines:
political philosophy

Summary

Edmund Burke's 1790 polemic against the French Revolution, founding modern conservatism and predicting the Revolution's descent into tyranny.

Core Contribution

Burke's argument that liberation without institutional structure produces worse tyranny is the political thesis embedded in Nolan's treatment of Bane.

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

British political philosophyEnlightenment debate

Allied Works

A Tale of Two Cities The Dark Knight Rises

Contemporaries & Peers

Rights of Man

Minds Influenced

A Tale of Two Cities The Dark Knight Rises

Intellectual Posterity

Conservative political philosophy

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