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In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution


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For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility. The Revolution is no longer judged in terms of historical necessity but rather by "timeless" standards of morality. In this succinct essay, Sophie Wahnich explains how, contrary to prevailing interpretations, the institution of Terror sought to put a brake on legitimate popular violence-in Danton's words, to "be terrible so as to spare the people the need to be so"-and was subsequently subsumed in a logic of war. The Terror was "a process welded to a regime of popular sovereignty, the only alternatives being to defeat tyranny or die for liberty."

About the Author :
Sophie Wahnich is a historian based at the Laboratoire d'anthropologie des institutions et des organisations sociales in Paris. Her previous publications include L'impossible citoyen. L'étranger dans le discours de la Révolution française and La Longue patience du peuple: 1792, naissance de la République.

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We were not waiting merely for a book like this; this is the book we were waiting for. Many of the participants in the French revolution thought long and hard about such questions, and while it is sometimes difficult to understand their thoughts, and not always comfortable to do so, it is always interesting to go back into that perennial political laboratory and try. Wahnich's provocative book is testament to that. Our default position has become one of lazy dismissal: with all of the blood and brutality, how could we, why would we, want to consider the Terror as anything but a horror show? . Wahnich's subversive reflection is that far from taking lives, the Terror was actually about saving them. Sophie Wahnich illuminates the origins of the French revolutionary terror in an effort to help us to think clearly about the relationships between revolution, violence and terror in general. In Defence of the Terror is a provocative and compelling essay, well written and impressively concise, with a good mix of contemporary resonance and archival detail. A bold and stimulating essay, seeking to understand the Terror instead of ritual reprobation of its 'excesses.' In this portable (5.5x8") study, Wahnich (the Laboratory of the Anthropology of Institutions and Social Organizations, France) goes against current historical interpretations of the Jacobin Terror of the French Revolution when she says that the Terror was a precisely planned and controlled attempt to prevent further violence by the public. She also compares the French revolutionary Terror with recent fundamentalist terrorism. An intriguing take on modern social issues and history.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781784782023
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Verso Books
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 140
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 168 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1784782025
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jan 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution
  • Width: 129 mm


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