The People as a Natural Disaster
Redemptive Violence in Jacobin Political Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3362880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Duong (0000-0003-1497-9937, Bard College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 786-800 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055417000260 |
| OpenAlex | W2739552249 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 52 |
The trial and execution of Louis XVI served as a founding act of French republican democracy. It was also a scene of irregular justice: no legal warrants or procedural precedents existed for bringing a king to justice before the law. This essay describes how Jacobins crafted a new language of popular agency to overcome that obstacle-the language of redemptive violence. Although redemptive violence had roots in prerevolutionary notions of penal justice and social cohesion, its philosophical ambitions were revolutionary and modern. Analyzing that language illuminates how republican democracy weaponized a distinctive ideology of extralegal violence at its origins. It also helps explain redemptive violence's enduring appeal during and after the French Revolution
Agency (philosophy · Appeal · Criminology · Democracy · Economic Justice · French revolution · Ideology · Jacobin · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law
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Alibis of Empire
Discipline and Punish
Regeneration through violence
Consciousness and Society
Politics, culture and class in the french Revolution
Before the Deluge
Citizens without Sovereignty
The Dream of Reason
Inventing the French Revolution
When the King Took Flight
Work and Revolution in France
Fascist Spectacle
Avant-Garde Fascism
Political Actors
The Wretched of the Earth
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
History and Its Limits
Consciousness and Society
Rethinking the Political
Constitutional Democracy
The Headless Republic
The Violence of Structures and the Violence of Foundings
Revisiting Johan Galtung’s Concept of Structural Violence
Violence and the Word
The Law of Kinship
The Lawyer and the Lightning Rod
Between Decision and Deliberation
Declarations of Independence
Regenerating the World
Transformations of Classical Republicanism in Eighteenth-Century France
Sister Revolutions
Selected Writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Festivals and the French Revolution
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |