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A major actor in the American Revolution, the English intellectual
Thomas Paine (1737 1809) is best remembered for his pamphlet Common
Sense (1776), which advocated American independence from Britain.
Although accorded honorary French citizenship in 1792 for his
republican Rights of Man, Paine was later imprisoned and narrowly
escaped the guillotine. It was around this time that he started to
write The Age of Reason, originally published in two parts between
1794 and 1795. In Part 1, Paine outlines his personal religious
views and attacks institutional faith as a human invention, while
Part 2 analyses the Bible and highlights its contradictions. The
work was met with great hostility in Britain and denounced as
espousing atheism, while in America it led to a short-lived revival
of deism but was also much reviled. This reissue includes both
parts and affords valuable insight into radical freethinking during
the age of revolutions.
Paine arrived in America from England in 1774. A friend of Benjamin
Franklin, he was a writer of poetry and tracts condemning the slave
trade. In 1775, as hostilities between Britain and the colonies
intensified, Paine wrote Common Sense to encourage the colonies to
break the British exploitative hold and fight for independence. The
little booklet of 50 pages was published January 10, 1776 and sold
a half-million copies, approximately equal to 75 million copies
today.
Offering more detailed explanatory notes than earlier versions,
this edition reprints together for the first time all of Paine's
introductions to the versions published in his lifetime. In his own
richly informed Introduction, Claeys elucidates the historical
context and the subsequent influence of Paine's text, as well as
the major problems in interpreting Paine's theory. Instructors will
find this new edition a worthy counterpoint to the Hackett edition
of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, edited by J. G.
A. Pocock.
A major actor in the American Revolution, English intellectual
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) is remembered especially for his pamphlet
Common Sense (1776; also reissued in this series), which advocates
America's independence from Great Britain. An immediate
best-seller, it sold over 100,000 copies in three months. Paine was
a dedicated reformer who also lent his support to the French
Revolution. First published in 1791, this book was sparked by the
publication of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in
France (1790), a direct condemnation of the French uprising; and
the fourth edition of this remarkable contribution to political
philosophy is reissued here. In a passionate rebuttal of Burke's
position, Paine argues that revolution is legitimate against a
government that fails to protect its people and their essential
rights. Extremely influential in its own day, this book develops a
critique of authoritarian governments that remains relevant today.
A major actor in the American Revolution, English intellectual
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) is remembered especially for his pamphlet
Common Sense (1776; also reissued in this series), which advocates
America's independence from Great Britain. A dedicated radical,
Paine went on to lend his support to the French Revolution. In
1791, he published Rights of Man in response to Burke's Reflections
on the Revolution in France (1790), a condemnation of the events in
France. First published in 1792, this book is a continuation of
Rights of Man. While the first volume was a passionate rebuttal of
Burke's argument, this book - reissued here in its second edition -
develops concrete measures for political reform, proposing novel
concepts such as political representation and tax reform to benefit
the poor. Widely circulated because of its low price, the book
proved immensely influential, and resulted in indictments for
seditious libel for Paine and his editor.
This famous pamphlet - published anonymously in 1776 because of its
seditious content - by the British political radical Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) laid out his pioneering ideas for American
independence, and earned him the title of 'Father of the American
Revolution'. The Declaration of Independence, written chiefly by
Thomas Jefferson and famously promulgated later that year, was
influenced by Paine's arguments in this work: that America was too
large to be governed by a country as small as Britain - which, he
claimed, was ruling America only for its own financial gain - and
that the colonies had now achieved the financial and military
capacity to break free. Criticising the British monarchical system,
with a single figure at its pinnacle, Paine called instead for a
government that promoted security, liberty and equality for its
people. Over half a million copies of this highly influential
document were sold in America in its first year.
First published in 1782, this response to Raynal's The Revolution
of America (also reissued in this series) by Thomas Paine
(1737-1809) has been eclipsed by Paine's other work and largely
overlooked. Written a year after Raynal's account of the American
Revolution appeared in English, Paine's 'corrections' run to nearly
eighty pages. His main critique of Raynal is that his argument
stresses political theory rather than actions in the real world, an
approach that lacks practicality. Paine argues against Raynal's
assertion that the American War of Independence erupted over a tax
dispute, and downplays France's involvement in the movement for
independence. However, while attacking Raynal's influential work,
he does so diplomatically, believing that the Abbe was writing from
too great a distance to assess accurately the causes and principles
of the conflict. This book has been hailed by scholars as the first
of Paine's publications to demonstrate his internationalist views.
Written in the years from 1792 to 1795 while Thomas Paine was in
prison, "The Age of Reason" shocked 18th-century readers with its
attack on the conventions of Christianity. Based on years of study
and reflection by the author, the work is written from the deist
point of view and questions Christian beliefs and the role of
religion in society. Its resonance remains undiminished after two
centuries, and it continues to influence thinkers around the world
Thomas Paine was the spark that ignited the American Revolution.
More than just a Founding Father, he was a verbal bomb-thrower, a
rationalist, and a rebel. In his influential pamphlets Common Sense
and The American Crisis, Paine codified both colonial outrage and
the intellectual justification for independence, arguing
consistently and convincingly for Enlightenment values and the
power of the people. Today, we are living in times that, as Paine
famously said, "try men's souls." Whatever your politics, if you're
seeking to understand the political world we live in, where better
to look than Paine? The Daily Thomas Paine offers a year's worth of
pithy and provocative quotes from this quintessentially American
figure. Editor Edward G. Gray argues that we are living in a moment
that Thomas Paine might recognize--or perhaps more precisely, a
moment desperate for someone whose rhetoric can ignite a
large-scale social and political transformation. Paine was a master
of political rhetoric, from the sarcastic insult to the diplomatic
apercu, and this book offers a sleek and approachable sampler of
some of the sharpest bits from his oeuvre. As Paine himself says in
the entry for January 20: "The present state of America is truly
alarming to every man who is capable of reflexion." The Daily
Thomas Paine--the newest addition to the University of Chicago
Press's ongoing series of collected wisdom from notable
writers--should prove equally incendiary and inspirational for
contemporary readers with an eye for politics, even those who
prefer the tweet to the pamphlet.
‘When my country … was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir’ Published anonymously in 1776, six months before the Declaration of Independence, Paine’s Common Sense was a radical and impassioned call for America to free itself from British rule and set up an independent republican government. Savagely attacking hereditary kingship and aristocratic institutions, Paine urged a new beginning for his adopted country in which personal freedom and social equality would be upheld and economic and cultural progress encouraged. His pamphlet was the first to speak directly to a mass audience – it went through fifty-six editions within a year of publication – and its assertive and often caustic style both embodied the democratic spirit he advocated, and converted thousands of citizens to the cause of American independence. Isaac Kramnick’s introduction examines Paine’s life and work within the context of the political and social changes taking place in Europe and America in the late eighteenth century.
An Unabridged Edition (Parts I and II) From 'The Writings Of Thomas
Paine,' Edited By Moncure Conway With All Charts and Tables, Notes
and Footnotes, To Include A Chronology Of Paine's Life
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Age of Reason (Hardcover)
Thomas Paine; Edited by Moncure Daniel Conway
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Common Sense (Paperback)
Thomas Paine; Introduction by Alan S Taylor
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"In "Common Sense" a writer found his moment to change the
world," Alan Taylor writes in his introduction. When Paine's attack
on the British mixed constitution of kings, lords, and commons was
published in January 1776, fighting had already erupted between
British troops and American Patriots, but many Patriots still
balked at seeking independence. "By discrediting the sovereign
king," Taylor argues, "Paine made independence thinkable--as he
relocated sovereignty from a royal family to the collective people
of a republic." Paine's American readers could conclude that they
stood at "the center of a new and coming world of utopian
potential." The John Harvard Library edition follows the text of
the expanded edition printed by the shop of Benjamin Towne for W.
and T. Bradford of Philadelphia.
Advocating equality, meritocracy, and social responsibility in
plain language, Paine galvanized tens of thousands of readers and
changed the framework of political discourse. He was tried and
convicted for sedition by the British government for publishing the
pamphlet, but his direct style and provocative ideas were hugely
influential and continue to speak to modern readers. This edition
situates Rights of Man within the discussion of the French
Revolution in Britain and enables readers to understand the broader
political debates of the 1790s. Appendices include responses to the
French Revolution. Paine's response to the Proclamation that
declared his writing seditious, contemporary political philosophy
by Richard Price and Edmund Burke, and cartoon satirizing Paine.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have
transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have
inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have
enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched
lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the
great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas
shook civilization, and helped make us who we are.
Published to commemorate the bicentennial of Thomas Paine s death,
these texts have remained two of the most influential arguments for
liberty in political thought. Common Sense is a pamphlet that Paine
wrote in support of American independence. Due to its original and
simple style it spread like wildfire through the colonies,
inspiring the American Revolution. The Rights of Man is Paine s
passionate defense of the French Revolution that led to his trial
for sedition and libel. The acclaimed historian Peter Linebaugh
provides an original examination of Paine s thought and legacy.
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