malheurs de la vertu, de 1799, e os discursos de
Robespierre, proferidos
In the end,
Robespierre himself met his fate by the same machine.
For
Robespierre, 'slowness of judgments is equal to impunity' and 'uncertainty of punishment encourages all the guilty.' He argued that if only 200 people of France's political elite were killed, all social and political challenges would come to an end.
5-51) a una seleccion de textos de Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore
Robespierre en pleno siglo XXI, en medio de una democracia rampante quiza, y de la critica ideologica como herramienta de deslegitimacion de cualquier iniciativa a gran escala, es un fenomeno normalizado.
Francois Furet's intellectual history-based revisionism viewing the Rousseauianism of
Robespierre as the Revolution's purest discourse, which dominated the field in recent decades, he declares, "needs rejecting just as comprehensively" (p.
As Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday writes (she loved "Obvious Child") "
Robespierre, like so many of her contemporaries, clearly sees profanity as a legitimate arrow in the quiver of liberation, a mode of bracing, confrontational candor that instantly disarms fusty structures of sexism and other depredations." So, the fouler the mouth, the sturdier the challenges to "sexism and other depredations."
The topics include French banned books in international perspective 1770-89,
Robespierre and violence, the experience of military justice in the armies of the French Revolution, imagining the effects of the Terror in post-revolutionary France, French political legitimation and historical discourse in Belgium 1792-99, and the experience of the Dissenting community in south-west Wales in 1797.
What was the period of
Robespierre's rule called during the French Revolution?
Even
Robespierre invoked the spirit of posterity in the following speech before the Jacobin Club:
Its 30 million digital inhabitants are ruled by duplicates of some of history's cruellest tyrants: Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust; Beria, Stalin's arch executioner; Torquemada, Spain's pitiless Inquisitor General;
Robespierre, the face of the Reign of Terror.
But the ancestors of
Robespierre and Saint-Just also include a host of more far-flung visionaries, evoking "gold ages" in the past, insular paradises abroad, or scientific utopias to come--Voltaire, Diderot, even the Physiocrats.