The Legacy of the French Revolution

by Hancock, Ralph C.; Lambert, Gary L.; Beneton, Philippe; Ceaser, James; Lambert, L Gary; Manent, Pierre; Mansfield, Harvey C.; Marshall, Terence; Rabkin, Jeremy; Raynaud, Philippe; Reynolds, Noel; Thompson, Bradley

• ISBN13: 9780847678419
• ISBN10: 0847678415
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-02
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This collection of essays by prominent American and French scholars explores the political, cultural, and social implications of the most fundamentally formative modern event, the French Revolution. The contributors contend that the vocabulary and spirit of the French Revolution has exercised greater influence on the modern world than the more moderate and by all appearances more successful American Revolution. The Legacy of the French Revolution delineates the distinctive characters of the American and French revolutions and analyzes the different variants of democratic political traditions that have evolved from this seminal event. This book will be of particular interest to political theorists, political historians, and students of democratic theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Unfinished Revolution	p. 19
The French Revolution and French and English Liberalism	p. 43
The Two Revolutions	p. 81
The American Founding and the French Revolution	p. 109
Human Rights and Constitutional Government: A Franco-American Dialogue at the Time of the Revolution	p. 151
The Great Misunderstanding	p. 175
The Rule of Law in Eighteenth-Century Revolutions	p. 189
The "Rights of Man and Citizen" in the French Constitutional Tradition	p. 199
Revolutionary Visions in Legal Imagery: Constitutional Contrasts between France and America	p. 219
Conclusion: Two Revolutions and the Problem of Modern Prudence	p. 257
Index	p. 289
About the Contributors	p. 301
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