Social and Political Thought of the French Revolution, 1788-1797: An Anthology of Original Texts - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820424056 ISBN 13: 9780820424057

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1997

Synopsis

The French Revolution was the culmination of the preceding three centuries and the inspiration or, alternatively, the whipping boy of the two centuries that followed. This is understandable enough, for it was the crucible wherein was forged the ideologies that continue to define political discourse - liberalism, conservatism, democracy, communism, anarchism, nationalism, and terrorism all enter the political arena with the Revolution. This anthology brings together the texts that cover the spectrum of French revolutionary social and political thought. The writings presented range from debates over the rights of man through proposals to equalize the distribution of property in society, to efforts to justify privilege and the corporate state.

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About the Author

The Editor and Translator: Author of The People in French Counter-Revolutionary Thought (Peter Lang, 1988), a former Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard University and a two-Year Fulbright Fellow in Paris, Marc Allan Goldstein received his doctorate from Brandeis University. He is coeditor of Peter Lang's series Eighteenth Century French Intellectual History, coordinator of Honors and a member of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts where he teaches history and philosophy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820424056
• ISBN 13: 9780820424057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 822
• Editor: Goldstein Marc A.