Regicide and Revolution

Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-231-08259-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

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 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."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walzer, Michael

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rothstein, Marian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Morningside EditionPreface to the Original EditionTranslator's Preface

Regicide and Revolution

1. Two Kinds of Regicide2. The Old Regime3. The King and the Law4. The Revolutionary Argument5. A Defense of the Trial and Execution of Louis XVI

The Speeches

1. Maihle: 7 November 17922. Morisson: 13 November 17923. Saint-Just: 13 November 17924. Paine: 21 November 17925. Robespierre: 3 December 17926. Condorcet: 3 December 17927. Marat: 3 December 17928. Saint-Just: 27 December 17929. Robespierrre: 28 December 179210. Vergniaud: 31 December 179211. Paine: 7 January 1793

Appendix

1. Revolutionary Justice by Ferenc Feher2. The Kind's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution by Michael Walzer3. Excerpts from the Constitution of 1791

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Walzer is a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. His other books include Just and Unjust Wars and Exodus and Revolution.