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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)"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/11/2010
      ISBN13: 9780226184395, 978-0226184395
      ISBN10: 0226184390
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      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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