Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an absolutely essential part of the French Revolution, Walzer discusses two types of regicide: the first, committed by would-be kings or their agents, left the monarchy's mystique and divine right intact, while the second was a revolutionary act intended to destroy it completely. Walzer defends the trial and execution of Louis XVI as necessary, since it not only tried to destroy the monarchy's mystique and divine right, but also required the deputies to fully explain their guiding philosophies and applied the rules of judicial process to establish equality before the law. New to this edition is an appendix containing "Revolutionary Justice," Ferenc Feher's classic rebuttal to Walzer's thesis, and Walzer's response, "The King's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution."
| ISBN | 0231082592 | | Pages | 272 | | ISBN13 | 9780231082594
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Columbia University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 408 | | Imprint | Columbia University Press | | Published in | New York | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | A Morningside Book | | Publication date | 04 Mar 1993 | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Library of Congress | DC137.08.W | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 944.035092 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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Preface to the Morningside EditionPreface to the Original EditionTranslator's Preface Regicide and Revolution 1. Two Kinds of Regicide2. The Old Regime3. The King and the Law4. The Revolutionary Argument5. A Defense of the Trial and Execution of Louis XVI The Speeches 1. Maihle: 7 November 17922. Morisson: 13 November 17923. Saint-Just: 13 November 17924. Paine: 21 November 17925. Robespierre: 3 December 17926. Condorcet: 3 December 17927. Marat: 3 December 17928. Saint-Just: 27 December 17929. Robespierrre: 28 December 179210. Vergniaud: 31 December 179211. Paine: 7 January 1793 Appendix 1. Revolutionary Justice by Ferenc Feher2. The Kind's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution by Michael Walzer3. Excerpts from the Constitution of 1791 Index of Names
A very provocative essay, fecund with insights into the enduring problems of citizenship, servitude, political responsibility and legislative statesmanship." The New Republic
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