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050 00 $aDC183.5$b.E445 2009
082 00 $a944.04/4$222
100 1 $aEdelstein, Dan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2006016887
245 14 $aThe terror of natural right :$brepublicanism, the cult of nature, and the French Revolution /$cDan Edelstein.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2009.
300 $axi, 337 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tTo Live and Die by Nature's Laws -- $tPrologue: Hostis Humani Generis -- $gPt. I.$tA Secret History of Natural Republicanism in France (1699-1791) -- $gCh. 1.$tImaginary Republics -- $gCh. 2.$tFinding Nature -- $gPt. II.$tThe Republic of Nature (1792-94) -- $gCh. 3.$tOff With Their Heads: Death and the Terror -- $gCh. 4.$tThe Case of the Missing Constitution: Of Power and Policy -- $gCh. 5.$tThe Despotism of Nature: Justice and the Republic-To-Come -- $tConclusion: Legacies of the Terror.
520 1 $a"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.
651 0 $aFrance$xHistory$yReign of Terror, 1793-1794.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051370
651 0 $aFrance$xHistory$yRevolution, 1789-1799.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051319
651 0 $aFrance$xPolitics and government$y1789-1799.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051471
650 0 $aRepublicanism$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aPolitical violence$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century.
852 00 $boff,glx$hDC183.5$i.E445 2009