Robespierre and the Doctrine of the Supreme Being
Author : Val Rogin Lorwin
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1929
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Val Rogin Lorwin
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1929
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Smyth
Publisher : Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2016
Category : France
ISBN : 9781526103789
This volume explores Robespierre's vision and the events held across France on this day, which he declared a national day of celebration to inaugurate the state religion of the new French Republic, the Cult of the Supreme Being. It redefines the importance of the Festival in the development of the Revolution.
Author : Jonathan A. Smyth
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2016
Category : France
ISBN : 9781526120847
This volume explores Robespierre's vision and the events held across France on this day, which he declared a national day of celebration to inaugurate the state religion of the new French Republic, the Cult of the Supreme Being. It redefines the importance of the Festival in the development of the Revolution.
Author : Thomas Kenneth Lagow (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN :
Author : Ruth Scurr
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780805082616
Against the dramatic backdrop of the French Revolution, historian Scurr tracks Robespierre's evolution from lawyer to revolutionary leader. This is a fascinating portrait of a man who identified with the Revolution to the point of madness, and in so doing changed the course of history.
Author : Gregory Dart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 36,7 MB
Release : 2005-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521020398
This book re-opens the question of Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, by examining the relationship between his confessional writings and his political theory. Gregory Dart argues that by looking at the way in which Rousseau's writings were mediated by the speeches and actions of the French Jacobin statesman Maximilien Robespierre, we can gain a clearer and more concrete sense of the legacy he left to English writers. He shows how the writings of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth and William Hazlitt rehearse and reflect upon the Jacobin tradition in the aftermath of the French revolutionary Terror.
Author : Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers
Publisher :
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 1845
Category :
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Author : Marcel Gauchet
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691234965
How Robespierre’s career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events. The fervor of those who defend Robespierre the “Incorruptible,” who championed the rights of the people, is met with revulsion by those who condemn him as the bloodthirsty tyrant who sent people to the guillotine. Marcel Gauchet argues that he was both, embodying the glorious achievement of liberty as well as the excesses that culminated in the Terror. In much the same way that 1789 and 1793 symbolize the two opposing faces of the French Revolution, Robespierre’s contradictions were the contradictions of the revolution itself. Robespierre was its purest incarnation, neither the defender of liberty who fell victim to the corrupting influence of power nor the tyrant who betrayed the principles of the revolution. Gauchet shows how Robespierre’s personal transition from opposition to governance was itself an expression of the tragedy inherent in a revolution whose own prophetic ideals were impossible to implement. This panoramic book tells the story of how the man most associated with the founding of modern French democracy was also the first tyrant of that democracy, and it offers vital lessons for all democracies about the perpetual danger of tyranny.
Author : Albert Mathiez
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 1927
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Colin Tyler
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826446833
Showing the inseparability of the British idealists' social and political radicalism from the inherent logic of idealism, this book makes extensive use of previously unpublished British idealist manuscripts.