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Terror and Its Discontents is a revealing look into the paradoxical embargo on free expression that underpinned the Robespierrists' self-proclaimed "despotism of liberty" during the French Revolution. Caroline Weber provides a highly original--and timely--exposition of the political u...

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Auteur principal: Weber, Caroline, 1969-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Revolutionaries > Language.
Language and languages.
French language > Political aspects.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Revolutionnaires > France > Langage.
Français (Langue) > 18e siecle > Aspect politique > France.
Revolutionaries > France > Language.
French language > 18th century > Political aspects > France.
France.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Language.
France > History > Reign of Terror, 1793-1794.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Terror and Its Discontents is a revealing look into the paradoxical embargo on free expression that underpinned the Robespierrists' self-proclaimed "despotism of liberty" during the French Revolution. Caroline Weber provides a highly original--and timely--exposition of the political uses of rhetoric and of the links between language and power
Description:Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 1998) presented under the title: The limits of "saying everything: terrorist suppressions and uspeakable difference in Rousseau, Sade, Robespierre, Saint-Just, and Desmoulins."
Description matérielle:1 online resource (320 pages).
ISBN:9780816693337

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