Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI
by Michael Walzer (Editor)
40 Members (4.50)
On This Page
Description
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 show more 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." show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Members
- Recently Added By
Author Information
Michael Walzer is professor emeritus of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, and the author of many widely heralded books, including Spheres of Injustice, Exodus and Revolution, and The Company of Critics. He lives in Princeton and New York.
All Editions
Series
Belongs to Publisher Series
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Louis XVI, King of France; Maximilien de Robespierre; Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
- Important places
- France
- Important events
- French Revolution
Classifications
- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 944.035 — History & geography History of Europe France and Monaco France Bourbon 1589-1789 Louis XVI 1774-92
- LCC
- DC137.08 .W34 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania France – Andorra – Monaco History of France Modern, 1515- 1715-1789. 18th century. Louis XV, Louis XVI
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 40
- Popularity
- 731,824
- Rating
- (4.50)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
