In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution by Wahnich, Sophie

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781784782023)

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In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution by Wahnich, Sophie

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

$19.95
In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution by Wahnich, Sophie

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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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."

Author: Sophie Wahnich
ISBN-10: 1784782025
ISBN-13: 9781784782023
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2016
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.60d
By Sophie Wahnich
By Sophie Wahnich
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Sophie Wahnich is a historian based at the Laboratoire d'anthropologie des institutions et des organisations sociales in Paris. Her previous publications include L'impossible citoyen. L'騁ranger dans le discours dela R騅olution fran軋ise and La Longue patience du peuple: 1792, naissancede la R駱ublique.

Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, In Defense of Lost Causes, four volumes of the Essential Žižek, and many more.

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