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Book Synopsis Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre by : David P. Jordan
Download or read book Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre written by David P. Jordan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In changing forever the political landscape of the modern world, the French Revolution was driven by a new personality: the confirmed, self-aware revolutionary. Maximilien Robespierre originated the role, inspiring such devoted twentieth-century disciples as Lenin—who deemed Robespierre a Bolshevik avant la lettre. Although he dominated the Committee for Public Safety only during the last year of his life, Robespierre was the Revolution in flesh and blood. He embodies its ideological essence, its unprecedented extremes, its absolutist virtues and vices; he incarnated a new, completely politicized self to lead a new, wholly regenerated society. Yet as historian David P. Jordan observes, Robespierre has remained an enigma. While his revolutionary career embraced the most crucial years of the Revolutions—1789 to 1794—it was little presaged by the unremarkable course of his early life. The Jacobin leader to whom the revolutionary masses clung is thus both as mysterious as his remote provincial past and as awesome as the world-shaking regicide he inspired. Confronted by these extremes, historians have often contented themselves to caricature Robespierre as an antichrist, a bourgeois manipulator of the rabble, or a canny political tactician. Jordan looks to Robespierre’s own self-conception for a true understanding of the man and his Revolution. Indeed, Robespierre wrote about himself often, and at length. Influenced by Enlightenment rationalism and the new literary genre of autobiography, he left behind a voluminous body of speeches, newspaper articles, and pamphlets laced with reflections and revelations about his self-created destiny as living martyr and revolutionary Everyman. From these thoughts and words, Jordan attempts to uncover Robespierre, to reveal what made this unlikely figure—onetime provincial lawyer, small-town académicien, and uninspired versifier—the most important in revolutionary France.
Download or read book Robespierre written by Marcel Gauchet and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Robespierre’s career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events. The fervor of those who defend Robespierre the “Incorruptible,” who championed the rights of the people, is met with revulsion by those who condemn him as the bloodthirsty tyrant who sent people to the guillotine. Marcel Gauchet argues that he was both, embodying the glorious achievement of liberty as well as the excesses that culminated in the Terror. In much the same way that 1789 and 1793 symbolize the two opposing faces of the French Revolution, Robespierre’s contradictions were the contradictions of the revolution itself. Robespierre was its purest incarnation, neither the defender of liberty who fell victim to the corrupting influence of power nor the tyrant who betrayed the principles of the revolution. Gauchet shows how Robespierre’s personal transition from opposition to governance was itself an expression of the tragedy inherent in a revolution whose own prophetic ideals were impossible to implement. This panoramic book tells the story of how the man most associated with the founding of modern French democracy was also the first tyrant of that democracy, and it offers vital lessons for all democracies about the perpetual danger of tyranny.
Book Synopsis To Speak for the People by : Jon Cowans
Download or read book To Speak for the People written by Jon Cowans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there is now a great deal of literature on the concept of public opinion in the 18th century France, it is almost entirely devoted to the pre-revolutionary years. No book has tackled the concept of public opinion in the French Revolution itself. To Speak for the People is a lucid and innovative study that finally fills this gap. Historian Jon Cowans adds a strong and genuinely original voice to the historical debate over the problem of legitimacy during the Revolution drawing on the works of such luminaries as Jürgen Habermas, Keith Baker, François Furet, and Nancy Fraser. He then examines the uses of terms such as public opinion, 'the public, and the people in political debates during the Revolution and analyzes those terms' changing meaning and the role they played in attempts to secure political authority. While shedding new light on the Revolution itself, the book raises broader issues by addressing the problem of legitimacy that has haunted all revolutionary and democratic governments throughout the modern period. Jon Cowans is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University. He has published articles on French political culture, cultural politics, and memory in French Historical Studies , the Journal of Contemporary History , and History and Memory . He teaches in the History Department of Rutgers University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Download or read book Robespierre written by Annie Jourdan and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Terror of Natural Right by : Dan Edelstein
Download or read book The Terror of Natural Right written by Dan Edelstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The revolutionary government, 1793-1797 by : François-Alphonse Aulard
Download or read book The revolutionary government, 1793-1797 written by François-Alphonse Aulard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sacred Fire of Liberty by : M. Sellers
Download or read book The Sacred Fire of Liberty written by M. Sellers and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-09-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the origins of the concept of liberty in the legal and political thought of Rome, Italy, England, France and the United States of America. Professor Sellers traces the development of liberty and republican government over two centuries of European history, in association with liberal ideas. This study reveals republicanism as the parent of liberalism in modern law and politics, and demonstrates the continuing value of republican ideas in securing the liberty of contemporary states and their citizens.
Book Synopsis The Revolution under the monarchy, 1789-1792 by : François-Alphonse Aulard
Download or read book The Revolution under the monarchy, 1789-1792 written by François-Alphonse Aulard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The revolution under the monarchy, 1789-1791 by : François-Alphonse Aulard
Download or read book The revolution under the monarchy, 1789-1791 written by François-Alphonse Aulard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The democratic republic, 1792-1795 by : François-Alphonse Aulard
Download or read book The democratic republic, 1792-1795 written by François-Alphonse Aulard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The French Revolution: The Revolution under the monarchy, 1789-1792 by : François-Alphonse Aulard
Download or read book The French Revolution: The Revolution under the monarchy, 1789-1792 written by François-Alphonse Aulard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The democratic republic, 1792-1797 by : François-Alphonse Aulard
Download or read book The democratic republic, 1792-1797 written by François-Alphonse Aulard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The French Revolution by : François-Alphonse Aulard
Download or read book The French Revolution written by François-Alphonse Aulard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The French Revolution, a Political History, 1789-1804 by : François-Alphonse Aulard
Download or read book The French Revolution, a Political History, 1789-1804 written by François-Alphonse Aulard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The French Revolution, a Political History 1789-1804: The revolution under the monarchy, 1789-1792 by : François-Alphonse Aulard
Download or read book The French Revolution, a Political History 1789-1804: The revolution under the monarchy, 1789-1792 written by François-Alphonse Aulard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The French Revolution: The democratic republic, 1792-1795 by : François-Alphonse Aulard
Download or read book The French Revolution: The democratic republic, 1792-1795 written by François-Alphonse Aulard and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Toward Democracy by : James T. Kloppenberg
Download or read book Toward Democracy written by James T. Kloppenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled to envision and achieve it. The story of democracy remains one without an ending, a dynamic of progress and regress that continues to our own day. In the classical age "democracy" was seen as the failure rather than the ideal of good governance. Democracies were deemed chaotic and bloody, indicative of rule by the rabble rather than by enlightened minds. Beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries, however, first in Europe and then in England's North American colonies, the reputation of democracy began to rise, resulting in changes that were sometimes revolutionary and dramatic, sometimes gradual and incremental. Kloppenberg offers a fresh look at how concepts and institutions of representative government developed and how understandings of self-rule changed over time on both sides of the Atlantic. Notions about what constituted true democracy preoccupied many of the most influential thinkers of the Western world, from Montaigne and Roger Williams to Milton and John Locke; from Rousseau and Jefferson to Wollstonecraft and Madison; and from de Tocqueville and J. S. Mill to Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Over three centuries, explosive ideas and practices of democracy sparked revolutions--English, American, and French--that again and again culminated in civil wars, disastrous failures of democracy that impeded further progress. Comprehensive, provocative, and authoritative, Toward Democracy traces self-government through three pivotal centuries. The product of twenty years of research and reflection, this momentous work reveals how nations have repeatedly fallen short in their attempts to construct democratic societies based on the principles of autonomy, equality, deliberation, and reciprocity that they have claimed to prize. Underlying this exploration lies Kloppenberg's compelling conviction that democracy was and remains an ethical ideal rather than merely a set of institutions, a goal toward which we continue to struggle.
