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In Defence of the Terror
Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
Taschenbuch von Sophie Wahnich
Sprache: Englisch

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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."
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."
Über den Autor
Sophie Wahnich
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Neuzeit
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781784782023
ISBN-10: 1784782025
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wahnich, Sophie
Hersteller: Verso
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 196 x 130 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Sophie Wahnich
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.01.2016
Gewicht: 0,159 kg
Artikel-ID: 104732708
Über den Autor
Sophie Wahnich
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Neuzeit
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781784782023
ISBN-10: 1784782025
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wahnich, Sophie
Hersteller: Verso
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 196 x 130 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Sophie Wahnich
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.01.2016
Gewicht: 0,159 kg
Artikel-ID: 104732708
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