书名：Reflections on the Revolution in France 法国大革命反思录
作者：Edmund Burke
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2003
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780140432046
商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：416（以实物为准）

Reflections on the Revolution in France《法国大革命反思录》是保守主义奠基人埃德蒙·柏克的经典著作之一，也是政治思想史上的里程碑式的著作，在世界有广泛的影响，英美保守主义思想由此确立。本书对人类认识和应对社会变革，起了关键性的作用。作者在书中开启了一条全新的认识社会发展与变革的思想路径，他在书中评说法国大革命“毁灭性的破坏终将导致一种新的专制主义强权的出现，唯有它才能够维持社会免于全面的混乱和崩溃”成了“罕见的准确预言”，道出了暴力革命与专制统治的历史定律。他又以保守主义的立场揭示了“柏克定律”的历史警示——通过暴力革命建立的现代政权，接续上本国本民族之政治文化传统，回到秩序和传统的轨道上来，方能稳定长久地发展。本书就是针对因对变革应对不当而可能产生的后果所发出的严重警告。

媒体评论：
让革命成为安定之母，而非孕育下一次革命的温床。——埃德蒙•柏克

‘To make a revolution is to subvert the ancient state of our country; and no common reasons are called for to justify so violent a proceeding’
Burke’s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution’s attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change – and deplores the influence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain. Reflections on the Revolution in France is now widely regarded as a classic statement of conservative political thought, and is one of the eighteenth century’s great works of political rhetoric.
Conor Cruise O’Brien’s introduction examines the contemporary political situation in England and Ireland and its influence on Burke’s point of view. He highlights Burke’s brilliant grasp of social and political forces and discusses why the book has remained so significant for over two centuries.

1789年爆发的法国大革命，是世界历史上划时代的大事，它几乎迫使当时的每一个知识分子都要站在它面前表明自己的态度。柏克晚年的压轴大作Reflections on the Revolution in France《法国大革命反思录》即以充满激情而又酣畅淋漓的文笔，猛烈攻击了法国大革命的原则。在他看来，那些原则看似在维护人权和自由，实则空洞、危险，是对人权、自由、宪政以及维系欧洲文明的传统的践踏。他深入剖析了法国大革命的根本症结，准确地预言了随后的一系列灾难性后果，并在革命初期就预料到法国大革命一定以某种军事独裁作为终结。本书是保守主义经典著作，柏克也借此确立了其保守主义奠基人地位。

埃德蒙·柏克（Edmund Burke，1729-1797），英国18世纪晚期重要的政治学阐释者。终其一生，多数时候他都在从事政治实务。1765-1794年，他担任英国下议院辉格党的议员，还在短命政府中担任过副部长一职。他笔下的政治学理论均来源于从政经历。由于柏克深信人类社会的现实是复杂多变的，远远超出个人一生经验所能认识的范围，因此，他认为，在进行社会变革时，应当极为审慎。对于那些仅仅从一个抽象的政治原则出发，而未经实践检验的政治理论，柏克持有极大的怀疑和谨慎。他一再重申经历悠久岁月而流传下来的传统、习俗和经验的价值。在《法国大革命反思录》一书中，柏克充分地阐述了他作为英美保守主义奠基人的基本政治主张。

Edmund Burke (1729 - 97) was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1750 he entered the Middle Temple in London but soon left law for literature. His Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful influenced many writers of the Romantic period. An MP in the Whig Party, he championed the cause of Catholic emancipation and was involved in the governing India. Conor Cruise O'Brien is Emeritus Professor of the University of Dublin. In 1955 he was Counsellor in Paris and head of the United Nations section on Ireland from 1956 - 1960. He has been a professor at NYU, St Catherine's College, Oxford and at Dartmouth College in the USA. He has written on subjects including Ireland, Israel and the French Revolution.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Burke's Prefatory Note
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Notes
Bibliographical Note
Curriculum Vitae of Edmund Burke

THE spectre haunting Europe in The Communist Manifesto (1848), and haunting the world today [1968], walks for the first time in the pages of Burke:
… out of the tomb of the murdered monarchy in France has arisen a vast, tremendous, unformed spectre, in a far more terrifick guise than any which ever yet have overpowered the imagination, and subdued the fortitude of man. Going straight forward to its end, unappalled by peril, unchecked by remorse, despising all common maxims and all common means, that hideous phantom overpowered those who could not believe it was possible she could at all exist, except on the principles, which habit rather than nature had persuaded them were necessary to their own particular welfare, and to their own ordinary modes of action.
The revolution which Burke feared is not of course identical with Marx’s Communist revolution, but has much essential in common with it, and in some ways more in common with it than with the actual French
DEAR SIR,
You are pleased to call again, and with some earnestness, for my thoughts on the late proceedings in France. I will not give you reason to imagine, that I think my sentiments of such value as to wish myself to be solicited about them. They are of too little consequence to be very anxiously either communicated or withheld. It was from attention to you, and to you only, that I hesitated at the time, when you first desired to receive them. In the first letter I had the honour to write to you, and which at length I send, I wrote neither for nor from any description of men; nor shall I in this. My errors, if any, are my own. My reputation alone is to answer for them.
You see, Sir, by the long letter I have transmitted to you, that, though I do most heartily wish that France may be animated by a spirit of rational liberty, and that I think you bound, in all honest policy, to provide a permanent body, in which that spirit may reside, and an effectual organ, by which it may act, it is my misfortune to entertain great doubts concerning several material points in your late transactions.