Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI - Couverture souple

Walzer, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231082592 ISBN 13 : 9780231082594

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis Xvi was an absolutely essential part of the French Revolution, Walzer discusses two types of regicide: the first, committed by would-be kings or their agents, left the monarchy's mystique and divine right intact, while the second was a revolutionary act intended to destroy it completely.

Walzer defends the trial and execution of Louis Xvi as necessary, since it not only tried to destroy the monarchy's mystique and divine right, but also required the deputies to fully explain their guiding philosophies and applied the rules of judicial process to establish equality before the law.

New to this edition is an appendix containing "Revolutionary Justice," Ferenc Feher's classic rebuttal to Walzer's thesis, and Walzer's response, "The King's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Walzer is a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. His other books include Just and Unjust Wars and Exodus and Revolution.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231082592
• ISBN 13: 9780231082594
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible