IN DEFENCE OF THE TERROR by Sophie Wahnich ( 9781784782023 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

Item Details

Title:

IN DEFENCE OF THE TERROR
LIBERTY OR DEATH IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

By:

Sophie Wahnich

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£12.99

Our price:

£11.69

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£1.30

ISBN 10:

1784782025

ISBN 13:

9781784782023

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

VERSO BOOKS

Pub. date:

22 December, 2015

Pages:

144

Description:

Provocative reassessment of the Great Terror as a price worth paying

Synopsis:

For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged in terms of historical necessity but rather by "timeless" standards of morality. In this succinct essay, Sophie Wahnich explains how, contrary to prevailing interpretations, the institution of Terror sought to put a brake on legitimate popular violence--in Danton's words, to "be terrible so as to spare the people the need to be so"--and was subsequently subsumed in a logic of war. The Terror was "a process welded to a regime of popular sovereignty, the only alternatives being to defeat tyranny or die for liberty."

Publication:

Imprint:

Verso Books

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

IN DEFENCE OF THE TERROR

IN DEFENCE OF THE TERROR (HB)

POLITICS OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY (PB)

REVOLUTION FRANCAISE