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

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

Edelstein, Dan

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Literary CriticismFrench History

ISBN10: 0226184390
ISBN13: 9780226184395
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Nov 15 2010
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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 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.

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