Mary Wollstonecraft : rivoluzione francese e costruttivismo

The article focuses on the very original and brilliant analysis of French Revolution Mary Wollstonecraft developed during her staying in the revolutionary Paris. Wollstonecraft reads the events of the first stage of the French Revolution in the light of the experience of the Terror. The result is a criticism of the possibility of projecting a totally new society according an exclusively rational plan. The loosing of the faith in the Enlightment rationalism leads Wollstonecraft to revalue gradual reformism, experience, history and traditions. She explains the totalitarian aspects of French Revolution comprehending the dangers of what we call today rational constructivism. Her interpretation of Revolution will result very close to the one by Edmund Burke. [Publisher's text].