The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate

The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate

Author: Daniel I. O'Neill

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0271047526

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Many modern conservatives and feminists trace the roots of their ideologies, respectively, to Edmund Burke (1729-1797) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797). Here, according to the author Burke is misconstrued if viewed as mainly providing a warning about the dangers of attempting to turn utopian visions into political reality.