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But the most provocative argument in his book is that the ideas that made the revolution spiral out of control were the cult of nature and the belief in natural rights.” (Samuel Moyn Nation)“Edelstein has given us a highly innovative and revealing discussion of the legal foundations of the Terror, tracing back t

But the most provocative argument in his book is that the ideas that made the revolution spiral out of control were the cult of nature and the belief in natural rights.” (Samuel Moyn Nation)“Edelstein has given us a highly innovative and revealing discussion of the legal foundations of the Terror, tracing back the Revolution’s radical reform of justice to idiosyncratic interpretations of myths about the political state of nature and the golden age, as they appear in Enlightenment literature and in Jacobinian natural republicanism.”. “One of the most memorable and absorbing books on the era I have ever read. Against interpretations that simply blame circumstances, Edelstein too insists that ideas mattered

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. 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 of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.. 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. 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 t

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• Title : The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution
• Author : Dan Edelstein
• Rating : 4.81 (447 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-4-11
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 350 Pages
• Asin : 0226184390
• Language : English