Author: Emmanuel Joseph SIEYÈS (Count.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
An essay on privileges, and particularly on hereditary nobility ... Translated into English, with notes, by a foreign nobleman, now in England
Author: Emmanuel Joseph SIEYÈS (Count.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Sieyès: Political Writings
Author: Emmanuel SieyèsPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603840060
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836) distinguished himself as the chief theoretician of the French Revolution--and as a revolutionary constitutional and social theorist in his own right--through his rigorously analytical theory of representative government and its corollary, the representative character of social life in general. He expressed the essence of his thought in a series of three pamphlets published in the months leading up to the meeting of the Estates-General in 1789. This volume presents all three essays--Views of the Executive Means, An Essay on Privileges, and What Is the Third Estate?--in their entirety. The third essay, in a new translation by Michael Sonenscher, is followed by Sieyes's 1791 newspaper debate with Tom Paine on the merits of monarchy versus republicanism. Elucidated by Sonenscher's insightful Introduction, these texts will fascinate anyone interested in the history of the French Revolution, the history of social and political thought, or the origins and character of modern liberalism.
The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged
Author: Thomas Paine
Author: J. C. D. ClarkPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192548999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was England's greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of Man. No one else combined the roles of activist and theorist, or did so in the 'age of revolutions', fundamental as it was to the emergence of the 'modern world'. But his fame meant that he was taken up and reinterpreted for current use by successive later commentators and politicians, so that the 'historic Paine' was too often obscured by the 'usable Paine'. J. C. D. Clark explains Paine against a revised background of early- and mid-eighteenth-century England. He argues that Paine knew and learned less about events in America and France than was once thought. He de-attributes a number of publications, and passages, hitherto assumed to have been Paine's own, and detaches him from a number of causes (including anti-slavery, women's emancipation, and class action) with which he was once associated. Paine's formerly obvious association with the early origin and long-term triumph of natural rights, republicanism, and democracy needs to be rethought. As a result, Professor Clark offers a picture of radical and reforming movements as more indebted to the initiatives of large numbers of men and women in fast-evolving situations than to the writings of a few individuals who framed lasting, and eventually triumphant, political discourses.
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Author: The Eighteenth Century
Author: Bibliotheca Britannica; Or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature
Author: Robert WattPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 968
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Author: Robert Watt
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