Terror and Its Discontents

preview-18
  • Terror and Its Discontents Book Detail

  • Author : Caroline Weber
  • Release Date : 2003-01-01
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 324
  • ISBN 13 : 9780816638871
  • File Size : 62,62 MB

Terror and Its Discontents by Caroline Weber PDF Summary

Book Description: Camille Desmoulins, a journalist writing under the Montagnard regime of 1793-94, remarked that France's government had replaced "the language of democracy" with "the cold poison of fear, which paralyzed thought in the bottom of people's souls, and prevented it from pouring forth at the tribunal, or in writing." How this happened, how the Reign of Terror reached even into the realms of thought and language, is the subject of Caroline Weber's book, a revealing look into the paradoxical embargo on free expression that underpinned the Robespierrists' self-proclaimed "despotism of liberty" during the French Revolution. Weber examines Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and the Robespierrists' articulation of a series of initiatives designed to curtail and control the dissemination of alternative political and philosophical messages in the republic. Here Weber underscores the internal contradictions and limitations of an enterprise that promised universal freedom while oppressing particularism, and that railed against the very language that it was compelled to adopt as a principal political tool. The book then focuses on two eloquent contemporary critics of this phenomenon, Desmoulins and the Marquis de Sade, the infamous libertine author. Weber demonstrates how Desmoulins reconfigured the Montagnard regime's rhetoric to conjure up a political system based on tolerance, not terror, and how Sade deftly parodied the Robespierrists' brutality and hypocrisy, proposing a republic based on the ruthless elimination of dissident voices and on the unabashed celebration of despotism and bloodshed. A balanced account of how the "discourse of totality" actually restricted particular freedoms in the wake of theFrench Revolution, this book provides a highly original--and timely--exposition of the political uses of rhetoric and of the links between language and power.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Terror and Its Discontents books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Terror and Its Discontents

Terror and Its Discontents

File Size : 27,27 MB
Total View : 1655 Views
DOWNLOAD

Camille Desmoulins, a journalist writing under the Montagnard regime of 1793-94, remarked that France's government had replaced "the language of democracy" with

Terror and Its Discontents

Terror and Its Discontents

File Size : 92,92 MB
Total View : 8256 Views
DOWNLOAD

Camille Desmoulins, a journalist writing under the Montagnard regime of 1793-94, remarked that France's government had replaced "the language of democracy" with

Threats

Threats

File Size : 93,93 MB
Total View : 2491 Views
DOWNLOAD

"It's a rare author who can combine literary erudition and an easy fluency of style together with expert knowledge of psychology and evolutionary biology. David

Disciplining Terror

Disciplining Terror

File Size : 29,29 MB
Total View : 7043 Views
DOWNLOAD

Since 9/11, we have been told that terrorists are pathological evildoers. Yet before the 1970s, hijackings, assassinations, and other acts now called 'terrorism