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Volney: 'The Ruins' and 'Catechism of Natural Law'

Volney: 'The Ruins' and 'Catechism of Natural Law' - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Constantin Volney, Colin Kidd (Editor), Colin Kidd (Translator)Series:Cambridge Texts in the History of Political ThoughtPublish date:2024-02-15Pages:270
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108717267ISBN-10:1108717268UPC:9781108717267Book Category:Non-Classifiable, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Non-ClassifiableSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC57W3KMKY
Volney was once as influential as Tom Paine, and the author of one of the most popular works of the French Revolutionary era. The Ruins of Empires makes an argument for popular sovereignty, couched in the alluring and accessible form of an Oriental dream-tale. A favourite of both Thomas Jefferson, who translated it, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the Ruins advances a scheme of radical, utopian politics premised upon the deconstruction of all the world's religions. It was widely celebrated by radicals in Britain and America, and exercised an enormous influence on poets from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Walt Whitman for its indictments of tyranny and priestcraft. Volney instead advocates a return to natural precepts shorn of superstition, set out in his sequel, the Catechism of Natural Law. These days Volney enjoys a high profile in African-American Studies as a proponent of Black Egyptianism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108717267ISBN-10:1108717268UPC:9781108717267Book Category:Non-Classifiable, Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Non-ClassifiableSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SC57W3KMKY
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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