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The Terror of Natural Right (Hardcover)
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The Terror of Natural Right (Hardcover)
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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 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. 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 about the Terror to offer a new perspective
on the Revolutionary period.
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