The Terror of Natural Right Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution (Paperback)

Dan Edelstein

ISBN 10: 0226184390 / ISBN 13: 9780226184395

Edité par The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2010

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Paperback. Natural rightthe idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are natural in originis typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the enemy of the human racean individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalitiesto authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls natural republicanism, which assumed that the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he proves that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louiss trial until the fall of Robespierre. A highly original work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period. Argues that the revolutionaries of eighteenth-century France used the natural right concept of the 'enemy of the human race' - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titre: The Terror of Natural Right Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution (Paperback)
• Éditeur: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226184390
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226184395
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: new

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Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities—to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls “natural republicanism,” which assumed that the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he proves that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis’s trial until the fall of Robespierre.

A highly original work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.

À propos de l'auteur

Dan Edelstein is the William H. Bonsall Professor of French and (by courtesy) professor of history at Stanford University. He is the author of The Terror of Natural Right, The Enlightenment, and On the Spirit of Rights, all published by the University of Chicago Press.