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Author | : Dale Van Kley |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1995-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804788162 |
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“The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789” is the French Revolution’s best known utterance. By 1789, to be sure, England looked proudly back to the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and a bill of rights, and even the young American Declaration of Independence and the individual states’ various declarations and bills of rights preceded the French Declaration. But the French deputies of the National Assembly tried hard, in the words of one of their number, not to receive lessons from others but rather “to give them” to the rest of the world, to proclaim not the rights of Frenchmen, but those “for all times and nations.” The chapters in this book treat mainly the origins of the Declaration in the political thought and practice of the preceding three centuries that Tocqueville designated the “Old Regime.” Among the topics covered are privileged corporations; the events of the three months preceding the Declaration; blacks, Jews, and women; the Assembly’s debates on the Declaration; the influence of sixteenth-century notions of sovereignty and the separation of powers; the rights of the accused in legal practices and political trials from 1716 to 1789; the natural rights to freedom of religion; and the monarchy’s “feudal” exploitation of the royal domain.
Author | : Paul M. Cohen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0226112918 |
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What kind of freedom, and what kind of individual, has the French Revolutionary tradition sought to propagate? Paul Cohen finds a distinctly French articulation of freedom in the texts and lives of eight renowned cultural critics who lived between the eighteenth century and the present day. Arranged not according to the lives and times of its protagonists but to the narrative themes and structures they held in common, Cohen’s study discerns a single master narrative of liberty in modern France. He captures these radicals, whose tradition bids them to resist the authority of power structures and public opinion. They denounce bourgeois and utilitarian values, the power of Church and State, and the corrupting influence of everyday politics, and they dream of a revolutionary rupture, a fleeting instant of sometimes violent but always meaningful transgression. An eloquent and insightful work on French political culture, Freedom's Moment also helps explain how France, even as it has oscillated between political stagnation and crisis, has held onto its faith that liberty, equality, and fraternity remain within its grasp. Examines the ideas of Rousseau, Robespierre, Stendahl, Michelet, Bergson, Peguy, Sartre, and Foucault.
Author | : Dale Van Kley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : 9780804723558 |
Download The French Idea of Freedom: Old regime origins of democratic liberty David D. Bien; 2. From the lessons of French history to truths for all times and all people: the historical origins of an anti-historical declaration Dale Van Kley; 3. Betwixt cattle and men: Jews, blacks, and women, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man Shanti Marie Singham; 4. The idea of a declaration of rights Keith Michael Baker; Part II. Text: 5. National sovereignty and the general will: the political program of the declaration of rights J.K. Wright; 6. Safeguarding the rights of the accused: lawyers and political trials in France, 1716-1789 David A. Bell; 7. Religious toleration and freedom of expression Raymond Birn; 8. Property, sovereignty, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and the tradition of French jurisprudence Thomas E. Kaiser; Glossary; Abbreviation s; Notes; Index Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Among the topics covered are privileged corporations; the events of the three months preceding the Declaration; blacks, Jews, and women; the Assembly s debates on the Declaration; the influence of sixteenth-century notions of sovereignty and the separation of powers; the rights of the accused in legal practices and political trials from 1716 to 1789; the natural rights to freedom of religion; and the monarchy s feudal exploitation of the royal domain.
Author | : Charles Walton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2009-02-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199710015 |
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In the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, French revolutionaries proclaimed the freedom of speech, religion, and opinion. Censorship was abolished, and France appeared to be on a path towards tolerance, pluralism, and civil liberties. A mere four years later, the country descended into a period of political terror, as thousands were arrested, tried, and executed for crimes of expression and opinion. In Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Charles Walton traces the origins of this reversal back to the Old Regime. He shows that while early advocates of press freedom sought to abolish pre-publication censorship, the majority still firmly believed injurious speech--or calumny--constituted a crime, even treason if it undermined the honor of sovereign authority or sacred collective values, such as religion and civic spirit. With the collapse of institutions responsible for regulating honor and morality in 1789, calumny proliferated, as did obsessions with it. Drawing on wide-ranging sources, from National Assembly debates to local police archives, Walton shows how struggles to set legal and moral limits on free speech led to the radicalization of politics, and eventually to the brutal liquidation of "calumniators" and fanatical efforts to rebuild society's moral foundation during the Terror of 1793-1794. With its emphasis on how revolutionaries drew upon cultural and political legacies of the Old Regime, this study sheds new light on the origins of the Terror and the French Revolution, as well as the history of free expression.
Author | : Vanessa R. Schwartz |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2011-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195389417 |
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The French Revolution, politics and the modern nation -- French and the civilizing mission -- Paris and magnetic appeal -- France stirs up the melting pot -- France hurtles into the future.
Author | : Thomas HEARN (M.D.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1793 |
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ISBN | : |
Download A short view of the rise and progress of freedom in modern Europe, as connected with the causes which led to the French revolution ... With a vindication of the English constitution ... in answer to the calumnies of Thomas Paine, etc Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Human rights |
ISBN | : 9780947608057 |
Download The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jonathan Israel |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 883 |
Release | : 2014-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400849993 |
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How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution’s intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution. In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas—not their fulfillment.
Author | : Madame de Staël (Anne-Louise-Germaine) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1818 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
Download Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Tyler Stovall |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2022-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 069120537X |
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The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth century to today, revealing how being free has meant being white. Tyler Stovall explores the intertwined histories of racism and freedom in France and the United States, the two leading nations that have claimed liberty as the heart of their national identities. He explores how French and American thinkers defined freedom in racial terms and conceived of liberty as an aspect and privilege of whiteness. He discusses how the Statue of Liberty—a gift from France to the United States and perhaps the most famous symbol of freedom on Earth—promised both freedom and whiteness to European immigrants. Taking readers from the Age of Revolution to today, Stovall challenges the notion that racism is somehow a paradox or contradiction within the democratic tradition, demonstrating how white identity is intrinsic to Western ideas about liberty. Throughout the history of modern Western liberal democracy, freedom has long been white freedom. A major work of scholarship that is certain to draw a wide readership and transform contemporary debates, White Freedom provides vital new perspectives on the inherent racism behind our most cherished beliefs about freedom, liberty, and human rights.