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Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most

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Availability:In StockContributor:Marcel Gauchet, Malcolm Debevoise (Translator)Publish date:2024-08-06Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691234960ISBN-10:691234965UPC:9780691234960Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Europe, Political, Revolutions, Uprisings & RebellionsBook Topic:FranceSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SCASYBQ4TW

How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other protagonist of those dramatic and violent events. The fervor of those who defend Robespierre the "Incorruptible," who championed the rights of the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691234960ISBN-10:691234965UPC:9780691234960Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Europe, Political, Revolutions, Uprisings & RebellionsBook Topic:FranceSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.51 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SCASYBQ4TW
Marcel Gauchet is one of France's preeminent public intellectuals. He is professor emeritus at the ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the author of many books, including Madness and Democracy: The Modern Psychiatric Universe and The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion (both Princeton).
Publisher: Princeton University Press

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