The Legacy of the French Revolution

Herausgeber: Hancock, Ralph C.; Lambert, Gary L.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by prominent American and French scholars explores the political, cultural, and social implications of the most fundamentally formative modern event, the French Revolution. The contributors contend that the vocabulary and spirit of the French Revolution has exercised greater influence on the modern world than the more moderate and by all appearances more successful American Revolution. The Legacy of the French Revolution delineates the distinctive characters of the American and French revolutions and analyzes the different variants of democratic political traditions that have evolved from this seminal event. This book will be of particular interest to political theorists, political historians, and students of democratic theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9780847678426
• ISBN-10: 0847678423
• Artikelnr.: 21676908

Autorenporträt

Edited by Ralph C. Hancock and Gary L. Lambert - Contributions by Philippe Beneton; James Ceaser; L Gary Lambert; Pierre Manent; Harvey C. Mansfield; Terence Marshall; Jeremy Rabkin; Philippe Raynaud; Noel Reynolds and Bradley Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: THE IDEA OF REVOLUTION AND THE
PROBLEM OF MODERN LIBERTY Chapter 3 The Unfinished Revolution Chapter 4 The
French Revolution and French and English Liberalism Part 5 Part II: TWO
PHILOSOPHIES, TWO REVOLUTIONS Chapter 6 The Two Revolutions Chapter 7 The
American Founding and the French Revolution Chapter 8 Human Rights and
Constitutional Government: A Franco-American Dialogue at the Time of
Revolution Chapter 9 The Great Misunderstanding Part 10 Part III:
REVOLUTION, CONSTITUTION, LAW Chapter 11 The Rule of Law in
Eighteenth-Century Revolutions Chapter 12 The "Rights of Man and Citizen"
in the French Constitutional Tradition Chapter 13 Revolutionary Visions in
Legal Imagery: Constitutional Contrasts between France and America Chapter
14 Conclusion: Two Revolutions and the Problem of Modern Prudence Chapter
15 Index