In Defence of the Terror Wahnich Sophie
In Defence of the Terror Wahnich Sophie For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the…
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In Defence of the Terror Wahnich Sophie
For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. The Revolution is no longer judged in terms of historical necessity but rather by "timeless" standards of morality. But recent decades have brought a marked change in sensibility.
The Terror was "a process welded to a regime of popular sovereignty, the only alternatives being to defeat tyranny or die for liberty."From the Hardcover In this succinct essay, Sophie Wahnich explains how, contrary to prevailing interpretations, the institution of Terror sought to put a brake on legitimate popular violence--in Danton's words, to "be terrible so as to spare the people the need to be so"--and was subsequently subsumed in a logic of war.