Author: Ronald Schechter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022649960X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as “terroristic.” But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter tells the story of the term’s evolution in Western thought, examining a neglected yet crucial chapter of our complicated romance with terror. For centuries prior to the French Revolution, the word “terror” had largely positive connotations. Subjects flattered monarchs with the label “terror of his enemies.” Lawyers invoked the “terror of the laws.” Theater critics praised tragedies that imparted terror and pity. By August 1794, however, terror had lost its positive valence. As revolutionaries sought to rid France of its enemies, terror became associated with surveillance committees, tribunals, and the guillotine. By unearthing the tradition that associated terror with justice, magnificence, and health, Schechter helps us understand how the revolutionary call to make terror the order of the day could inspire such fervent loyalty in the first place—even as the gratuitous violence of the revolution eventually transformed it into the dreadful term we would recognize today. Most important, perhaps, Schechter proposes that terror is not an import to Western civilization—as contemporary discourse often suggests—but rather a domestic product with a long and consequential tradition.
A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France
Author: Ronald Schechter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022649960X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as “terroristic.” But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter tells the story of the term’s evolution in Western thought, examining a neglected yet crucial chapter of our complicated romance with terror. For centuries prior to the French Revolution, the word “terror” had largely positive connotations. Subjects flattered monarchs with the label “terror of his enemies.” Lawyers invoked the “terror of the laws.” Theater critics praised tragedies that imparted terror and pity. By August 1794, however, terror had lost its positive valence. As revolutionaries sought to rid France of its enemies, terror became associated with surveillance committees, tribunals, and the guillotine. By unearthing the tradition that associated terror with justice, magnificence, and health, Schechter helps us understand how the revolutionary call to make terror the order of the day could inspire such fervent loyalty in the first place—even as the gratuitous violence of the revolution eventually transformed it into the dreadful term we would recognize today. Most important, perhaps, Schechter proposes that terror is not an import to Western civilization—as contemporary discourse often suggests—but rather a domestic product with a long and consequential tradition.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022649960X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as “terroristic.” But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter tells the story of the term’s evolution in Western thought, examining a neglected yet crucial chapter of our complicated romance with terror. For centuries prior to the French Revolution, the word “terror” had largely positive connotations. Subjects flattered monarchs with the label “terror of his enemies.” Lawyers invoked the “terror of the laws.” Theater critics praised tragedies that imparted terror and pity. By August 1794, however, terror had lost its positive valence. As revolutionaries sought to rid France of its enemies, terror became associated with surveillance committees, tribunals, and the guillotine. By unearthing the tradition that associated terror with justice, magnificence, and health, Schechter helps us understand how the revolutionary call to make terror the order of the day could inspire such fervent loyalty in the first place—even as the gratuitous violence of the revolution eventually transformed it into the dreadful term we would recognize today. Most important, perhaps, Schechter proposes that terror is not an import to Western civilization—as contemporary discourse often suggests—but rather a domestic product with a long and consequential tradition.
Oraison funèbre de très grand, très haut, très puissant et très excellent prince Louis XVIII, roi de France et de Navarre
Author: Pierre-Etienne de Bonnevie
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Languages : fr
Pages : 112
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Pages : 104
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Oraison funèbre de très-haut, très-puissant et très-excellent prince Louis XVIII, roi de France et de Navarre
Author: Denis Frayssinous
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Category : Bible
Languages : fr
Pages : 58
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Languages : fr
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The Complete Works of Voltaire
Author: Voltaire
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Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Oraison funèbre de très haut, très puissant et très excellent Prince Louis XVIII, roi de France et de Navarre
Oraison funebre de tres-grand, tres-haut, tres-puissant, et tres-excellent prince, Louis 15., le bien-aimé, roi de France et de Navarre, prononcée dans l'Eglise de l'Abbaye Royale de Saint-Denis, le 27 juillet 1774, par messire Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Marie de Beauvais, evêque de Senez
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Pages : 72
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Oraison funebre de tres-haut, tres-puissant, et tres-excellent Prince Louis XIV., Roi de France, et de Navarre
Oraison funèbre de très grand, très haut, très puissant et très excellent prince Louis XV le Bien-Aimé, roi de France et de Navarre
Author: Jean Baptiste Charles Marie de Beauvais
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Languages : fr
Pages : 44
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Category : Funeral sermons
Languages : fr
Pages : 44
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