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Argues that the revolutionaries of eighteenth-century France used the natural right concept of the 'enemy of the human race' - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror.

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"The most provocative argument in his book is that the ideas that made the revolution spiral out of control were the cult of nature and the belief in natural rights." (Notion)"

The Terror of Natural Right

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 October 2009
      ISBN-13 9780226184388
      978-0226184388
      ISBN-10 0226184382
      Also in:
      European history Political science and theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Argues that the revolutionaries of eighteenth-century France used the natural right concept of the 'enemy of the human race' - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror.

      Trade Review
      "The most provocative argument in his book is that the ideas that made the revolution spiral out of control were the cult of nature and the belief in natural rights." (Notion)"

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