Terror and Its Discontents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Terror and Its Discontents write by Caroline Weber. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Terror and Its Discontents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Camille Desmoulins, a journalist writing under the Montagnard regime of 1793-94, remarked that France's government had replaced "the language of democracy" with "the cold poison of fear, which paralyzed thought in the bottom of people's souls, and prevented it from pouring forth at the tribunal, or in writing." How this happened, how the Reign of Terror reached even into the realms of thought and language, is the subject of Caroline Weber's book, a revealing look into the paradoxical embargo on free expression that underpinned the Robespierrists' self-proclaimed "despotism of liberty" during the French Revolution. Weber examines Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and the Robespierrists' articulation of a series of initiatives designed to curtail and control the dissemination of alternative political and philosophical messages in the republic. Here Weber underscores the internal contradictions and limitations of an enterprise that promised universal freedom while oppressing particularism, and that railed against the very language that it was compelled to adopt as a principal political tool. The book then focuses on two eloquent contemporary critics of this phenomenon, Desmoulins and the Marquis de Sade, the infamous libertine author. Weber demonstrates how Desmoulins reconfigured the Montagnard regime's rhetoric to conjure up a political system based on tolerance, not terror, and how Sade deftly parodied the Robespierrists' brutality and hypocrisy, proposing a republic based on the ruthless elimination of dissident voices and on the unabashed celebration of despotism and bloodshed. A balanced account of how the "discourse of totality" actually restricted particular freedoms in the wake of theFrench Revolution, this book provides a highly original--and timely--exposition of the political uses of rhetoric and of the links between language and power.
Terror and Its Discontents
Terror and Its Discontents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Terror and Its Discontents write by Caroline Weber. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Terror and Its Discontents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Camille Desmoulins, a journalist writing under the Montagnard regime of 1793-94, remarked that France's government had replaced "the language of democracy" with "the cold poison of fear, which paralyzed thought in the bottom of people's souls, and prevented it from pouring forth at the tribunal, or in writing." How this happened, how the Reign of Terror reached even into the realms of thought and language, is the subject of Caroline Weber's book, a revealing look into the paradoxical embargo on free expression that underpinned the Robespierrists' self-proclaimed "despotism of liberty" during the French Revolution. Weber examines Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and the Robespierrists' articulation of a series of initiatives designed to curtail and control the dissemination of alternative political and philosophical messages in the republic. Here Weber underscores the internal contradictions and limitations of an enterprise that promised universal freedom while oppressing particularism, and that railed against the very language that it was compelled to adopt as a principal political tool. The book then focuses on two eloquent contemporary critics of this phenomenon, Desmoulins and the Marquis de Sade, the infamous libertine author. Weber demonstrates how Desmoulins reconfigured the Montagnard regime's rhetoric to conjure up a political system based on tolerance, not terror, and how Sade deftly parodied the Robespierrists' brutality and hypocrisy, proposing a republic based on the ruthless elimination of dissident voices and on the unabashed celebration of despotism and bloodshed. A balanced account of how the "discourse of totality" actually restricted particular freedoms in the wake of theFrench Revolution, this book provides a highly original--and timely--exposition of the political uses of rhetoric and of the links between language and power.
Romanticism and Its Discontents
Romanticism and Its Discontents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romanticism and Its Discontents write by Anita Brookner. This book was released on 2001. Romanticism and Its Discontents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this work, the author has written her first book on art history for many years. She examines the works and lives of eight 10th century painters and writers.
Disciplining Terror
Disciplining Terror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disciplining Terror write by Lisa Stampnitzky. This book was released on 2013-04-18. Disciplining Terror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 9/11, we have been told that terrorists are pathological evildoers. Yet before the 1970s, hijackings, assassinations, and other acts now called 'terrorism' were considered the work of rational actors. Disciplining Terror explains how political violence became 'terrorism', and how this transformation ultimately led to the current 'war on terror'.
Discontent and Its Civilizations
Discontent and Its Civilizations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discontent and Its Civilizations write by Mohsin Hamid. This book was released on 2016-02-02. Discontent and Its Civilizations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in hardccover in 2015 by Riverhead Books.
