Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
Dr. Ian Crowe, Ph.D.
Director of the Edmund Burke Society of America
Associate Professor at Belmont Abbey College
Dr. Gregory Collins, Ph.D.
Lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics and Department of Political Science at Yale University
Time: Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 PM ET
Dates: February 4 – 25, 2025
Faculty: Dr. Ian Crowe and Dr. Gregory Collins
Location: Online
Description:
Burke was a prominent statesman and philosopher who denounced the society-wrenching ideology of the French Revolutionaries. His 1790 book, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is considered a seminal book in the Western and conservative intellectual traditions.
This course will serve as an introduction to Edmund Burke’s historical and perennial significance and to his most important and influential book. While reading through the entirety of the Reflections on the Revolution in France, students will consider how Burke’s ideas spoke to the dilemmas of the late eighteenth century and to the moral, cultural, and social challenges of our own time.
This online master class is available to a limited number of registrants. Some registrants will be placed on a waitlist and may be added if an initial registrant drops. Those who are waitlisted will also be considered for future educational opportunities offered by the Russell Kirk Center’s School of Conservative Studies.
This course is currently closed.