The French Idea of Freedom - 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 The French Idea of Freedom write by Dale Van Kley. This book was released on 1995-04-01. The French Idea of Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “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.
Freedom's Moment
Freedom's Moment - 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 Freedom's Moment write by Paul M. Cohen. This book was released on 2007-12-01. Freedom's Moment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution
Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution - 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 Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution write by Edward James Kolla. This book was released on 2017-10-12. Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793 - 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 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793 write by . This book was released on 1985. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Revolutionary Ideas
Revolutionary Ideas - 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 Revolutionary Ideas write by Jonathan Israel. This book was released on 2014-03-23. Revolutionary Ideas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
