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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction: To Live and Die by Nature's Laws | p. 1 |
Natural Right and Republicanism in France | p. 6 |
Natural Republicanism and the Golden Age | p. 11 |
"Enemies of the Human Race": Transgressing the Laws of Nature | p. 15 |
Natural Right and Terror Laws in the French Revolution | p. 17 |
Restoring the Republic of Nature: The Jacobin Project | p. 21 |
Prologue: Hostis Humani Generis | p. 26 |
Natural Man and Natural Right: New World Controversies | p. 27 |
The "True Ancient Enemy of the Human Race": Theology and the Devil | p. 30 |
Killing No Murder: Tyranny and Natural Right | p. 32 |
Pirates and the Law of the Land | p. 34 |
The Law of Nations and the Law of Nature | p. 36 |
Conclusion: Enlightenment and Hostility | p. 41 |
A Secret History of Natural Republicanism in France (1699-1791) | |
Imaginary Republics | p. 45 |
The State of Nature and the Golden Age: From Montaigne to Fénelon | p. 51 |
Troglodytes and Romans: Montesquieu's Two Republicanisms | p. 62 |
Classical Republicanism and Natural Right: Mably and Rousseau | p. 71 |
Finding Nature | p. 87 |
Republican Orientalism (Voltaire) | p. 88 |
Ethnography of the Golden Age: Diderot and Tahiti | p. 94 |
Physiocracy: Conceiving the Natural Republic | p. 101 |
The Politics of Sensibilité: Sylvain Maréchal, Natural Republican | p. 111 |
The Coming of the French Republic | p. 118 |
The Republic of Nature (1792-94) | |
Off with Their Heads: Death and the Terror | p. 127 |
Power to the People? Popular Violence and State Manipulation | p. 133 |
Terror by Committee: The Practice of Violence | p. 140 |
The Revolutionary Dialectic: The Counterrevolution and Cycles of Violence | p. 142 |
To Kill a King: Judging by Nature | p. 146 |
Outlawing the Nation: Natural Right and Terror Laws | p. 158 |
Only "Natural": Becoming a Terrorist | p. 163 |
The Case of the Missing Constitution: of Power and Policy | p. 170 |
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: A Jacobin "Conspiracy" | p. 172 |
The "Festival of Nature": Performing Natural Authority | p. 180 |
Conventions, Constitutions, and the Declaration of Rights | p. 187 |
Republican by Nature: Saint-Just versus the Girondins | p. 197 |
What's Left of the General Will? | p. 206 |
The Despotism of Nature: Justice and the Republic-to-Come | p. 215 |
Waiting for the Republic: The Revolutionary Government | p. 221 |
"Let Justice Be the Order of the Day": Ending "the Terror" | p. 225 |
One Republic under the Supreme Being: The Metaphysical Panopticon | p. 231 |
And Justice for All: The Law of 22 Prairial | p. 249 |
"System of Terror" or Natural Republic? | p. 253 |
Conclusion: Legacies of the Terror | p. 257 |
From a Natural Republic to a World Revolution | p. 260 |
Terror and Totalitarianism | p. 263 |
Two Concepts of Exceptionality | p. 271 |
Bibliography | p. 277 |
Index | p. 313 |
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