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Title: THE TERROR OF NATURAL RIGHT
REPUBLICANISM, THE CULT OF NATURE, AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
By: Dan Edelstein
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0226184390
ISBN 13: 9780226184395
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Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
Pub. date: 15 November, 2010
Pages: 350
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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 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. 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 about the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.
Illustrations: 6 halftones, 2 line drawings
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Returns: Returnable
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