Edmund Burke Audio Books

Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution.

Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry is an important treatise in the history of philosophical aesthetics, putting forth a theory of two concepts of central, perennial importance to the field of aesthetics, namely, the beautiful and the sublime.

This treatise originated as a letter to a friend who inquired as to the ability of Franceā€™s new ruling class to create a better order than had previously existed under the monarchy.

In A Philosophical Enquiry, Edmund Burke sets out to define the nature of beauty and sublimity, and establish an objective criterion for discussing aesthetics.

Written in the form of a letter to a Frenchman, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France is an impassioned attack on the French Revolution and its hasty destruction of the Church, the old elites, and the Crown.

Originally published in 1756, this is Burkeā€™s first important publication. In it he attacks the views of Lord Bolingbroke, who exalted the claims of natural religion by pointing out the unfortunate results stemming from religious creeds.