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The Terror of Natural Right Author: Dan Edelstein

ISBN: 9780226184388 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 350 Published: 16 September 2009 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 6.0 x 9.0 x 2.8 Description: 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. But during the French Revolution, this tradition was interpreted to justify the most repressive actions of the violent period known as the Terror.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. But the significance of the natural right did not end with its legal application. Edelstein argues that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls "natural republicanism," which assumed the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he argues 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...

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