Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael Walzer, Marian RothsteinTheme:Chronological Period/18th Century, Cultural Region/French, Cultural Region/Western EuropeAudience:Young AdultPublish date:3/25/1993Pages:272
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231082594ISBN-10:0231082592UPC:9780231082594Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Western Europe, History & TheoryBook Topic:FranceSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.363Product ID:SCM8VCC9AJ
Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an absolutely essential part of the French Revolution, Walzer discusses two types of regicide: the first, committed by would-be kings or their agents, left the monarchy's mystique and divine right intact, while the second was a revolutionary act intended to destroy it completely.
Walzer defends the trial and execution of Louis XVI as necessary, since it not only tried to destroy the monarchy's mystique and divine right, but also required the deputies to fully explain their guiding philosophies and applied the rules of judicial process to establish equality before the law. New to this edition is an appendix containing "Revolutionary Justice," Ferenc Feher's classic rebuttal to Walzer's thesis, and Walzer's response, "The King's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution."Languages:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231082594ISBN-10:0231082592UPC:9780231082594Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Western Europe, History & TheoryBook Topic:FranceSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.363Product ID:SCM8VCC9AJ
Michael Walzer is a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. His other books include Just and Unjust Wars and Exodus and Revolution.
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