In Defence of the Terror : Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1784782025
ISBN-13
9781784782023
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 5th, 2016
Print length
140 Pages
Weight
168 grams
Dimensions
13.30 x 19.60 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
European historyModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900French Revolution
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Provocative reassessment of the Great Terror as a price worth paying
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."
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