Human Nature And The French Revolution
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Human Nature And The French Revolution
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Author : Xavier Martin
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2001
Human Nature And The French Revolution written by Xavier Martin and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
What view of man did the French Revolutionaries hold? Anyone who purports to be interested in the "Rights of Man" could be expected to see this question as crucial and yet, surprisingly, it is rarely raised. Through his work as a legal historian, Xavier Martin came to realize that there is no unified view of man and that, alongside the "official" revolutionary discourse, very divergent views can be traced in a variety of sources from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code. Michelet's phrases, "Know men in order to act upon them" sums up the problem that Martin's study constantly seeks to elucidate and illustrate: it reveals the prevailing tendency to see men as passive, giving legislators and medical people alike free rein to manipulate them at will. His analysis impels the reader to revaluate the Enlightenment concept of humanism. By drawing on a variety of sources, the author shows how the anthropology of Enlightenment and revolutionary France often conflicts with concurrent discourses.
Human Nature And The French Revolution
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Author : Xavier Martin
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2003-12
Human Nature And The French Revolution written by Xavier Martin and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12 with History categories.
What view of man did the French Revolutionaries hold? Anyone who purports to be interested in the "Rights of Man" could be expected to see this question as crucial and yet, surprisingly, it is rarely raised. Through his work as a legal historian, Xavier Martin came to realize that there is no unified view of man and that, alongside the "official" revolutionary discourse, very divergent views can be traced in a variety of sources from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code. Michelet's phrases, "Know men in order to act upon them" sums up the problem that Martin's study constantly seeks to elucidate and illustrate: it reveals the prevailing tendency to see men as passive, giving legislators and medical people alike free rein to manipulate them at will. His analysis impels the reader to revaluate the Enlightenment concept of humanism. By drawing on a variety of sources, the author shows how the anthropology of Enlightenment and revolutionary France often conflicts with concurrent discourses.
The Terror Of Natural Right
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Author : Dan Edelstein
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009
The Terror Of Natural Right written by Dan Edelstein and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
"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. But during the French Revolution, this tradition was interpreted to justify the most repressive actions of the violent period known as the Terror." "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. But the significance of the natural right did not end with its legal application. Edelstein argues that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls "natural republicanism," which assumed the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he argues 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 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 JACKET.
The Legacy Of The French Revolution
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Author : Ralph C. Hancock
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1996
The Legacy Of The French Revolution written by Ralph C. Hancock and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
This work aims to clarify the distinctive character of the French Revolution by tracing the philosophical sources of its rhetoric and comparing it to that of the American Revolution.
The French Revolution And Napoleon
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Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-12-16
The French Revolution And Napoleon written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-16 with History categories.
The French Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, catalyzed violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon who brought many of its principles to areas he conquered in Western Europe and beyond. Inspired by liberal and radical ideas, the Revolution profoundly altered the course of modern history, triggering the global decline of absolute monarchies while replacing them with republics and liberal democracies. Contents: The Old Regime in Europe The Old Regime in France Beginnings of the Revolution The Making of the Constitution The Legislative Assembly The Convention The Directory The Consulate The Early Years of the Empire The Empire at Its Height The Decline and Fall of Napoleon Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen The Social Contract The Spirit of the Laws The State of Society in France Before the Revolution
Human Nature Cultural Diversity And The French Enlightenment
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Author : Henry Vyverberg
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1989-08-17
Human Nature Cultural Diversity And The French Enlightenment written by Henry Vyverberg and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-08-17 with History categories.
In this work, Henry Vyverberg traces the evolution and consequences of a crucial idea in French Enlightenment thought--the idea of human nature. Human nature was commonly seen as a broadly universal, unchanging entity, though perhaps modifiable by geographical, social, and historical factors. Enlightenment empiricism suggested a degree of cultural diversity that has often been underestimated in studies of the age. Evidence here is drawn from Diderot's celebrated Encyclopedia and from a vast range of writing by such Enlightenment notables as Voltaire, Rousseau, and d'Holbach. Vyverberg explains not only the age's undoubted fascination with uniformity in human nature, but also its acknowledgment of significant limitations on that uniformity. He shows that although the Enlightenment's historical sense was often blinkered by its notions of a uniform human nature, there were also cracks in this concept that developed during the Enlightenment itself.
A Natural History Of Revolution
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Author : Mary Ashburn Miller
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-15
A Natural History Of Revolution written by Mary Ashburn Miller and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-15 with History categories.
How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau’s writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution suggests that it is perhaps on a different shelf of the Enlightenment library that we might find the best clues for understanding the French Revolution: namely, in studies of the natural world. In their attempts to portray and explain the events of the Revolution, political figures, playwrights, and journalists often turned to the book of nature: phenomena such as hailstorms and thunderbolts found their way into festivals, plays, and political speeches as descriptors of revolutionary activity. The particular way that revolutionaries deployed these metaphors drew on notions derived from the natural science of the day about regeneration, purgation, and balance. In examining a series of tropes (earthquakes, lightning, mountains, swamps, and volcanoes) that played an important role in the public language of the Revolution, A Natural History of Revolution reveals that understanding the use of this natural imagery is fundamental to our understanding of the Terror. Eighteenth-century natural histories had demonstrated that in the natural world, apparent disorder could lead to a restored equilibrium, or even regeneration. This logic drawn from the natural world offered the revolutionaries a crucial means of explaining and justifying revolutionary transformation. If thunder could restore balance in the atmosphere, and if volcanic eruptions could create more fertile soil, then so too could episodes of violence and disruption in the political realm be portrayed as necessary for forging a new order in revolutionary France.
A Natural History Of Revolution
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Author : Mary Ashburn Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
A Natural History Of Revolution written by Mary Ashburn Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
The use of nature metaphors in explaining and justifying the excesses of the French Revolutions.
Considerations On The Nature Of The French Revolution
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Author : M. ) Mallet Du Pan (jacques
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-11
Considerations On The Nature Of The French Revolution written by M. ) Mallet Du Pan (jacques and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with categories.
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Reflections On The Revolution In France
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Author : Edmund Burke
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-29
Reflections On The Revolution In France written by Edmund Burke and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-29 with Philosophy categories.
Reflections on the Revolution in France by the Irish statesman Edmund Burke is a political pamphlet written and published in November 1790. It was one of the first and best-known intellectual attacks against the French Revolution. It is also a defining tract of modern conservatism as well as an important contribution to international theory.