Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 The Scottish Enlightenment, the Moral Sense, and the Civilizing Process 21
6. 2 Burke and the Scottish Enlightenment 51
7. 3 Wollstonecraft and the Scottish Enlightenment 89
8. 4 “The Most Important of All Revolutions” 125
9. 5 Vindicating a Revolution in Morals and Manners 157
10. 6 Burke on Democracy as the Death of Western Civilization 195
11. 7 Wollstonecraft on Democracy as the Birth of Western Civilization 227
12. Conclusion 257
13. Bibliography 263
14. Index 277