The Terror of Natural Right - Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

Zusammenfassung Argues that the revolutionaries of eighteenth-century France 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Edelstein
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780226184388
• ISBN: 978-0-226-18438-8
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 237 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Non-fiction book