Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an 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 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", which is Ferenc Feher's rebuttal to Walzer's thesis, and Walzer's response, "The King's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution".
Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an 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 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", which is Ferenc Feher's rebuttal to Walzer's thesis, and Walzer's response, "The King's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution".
Preface to the Morningside Edition Preface to the Original Edition Translator's Preface Regicide and Revolution 1. Two Kinds of Regicide 2. The Old Regime 3. The King and the Law 4. The Revolutionary Argument 5. A Defense of the Trial and Execution of Louis XVI The Speeches 1. Maihle: 7 November 1792 2. Morisson: 13 November 1792 3. Saint-Just: 13 November 1792 4. Paine: 21 November 1792 5. Robespierre: 3 December 1792 6. Condorcet: 3 December 1792 7. Marat: 3 December 1792 8. Saint-Just: 27 December 1792 9. Robespierrre: 28 December 1792 10. Vergniaud: 31 December 1792 11. Paine: 7 January 1793 Appendix 1. Revolutionary Justice by Ferenc Feher 2. The Kind's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution by Michael Walzer 3. Excerpts from the Constitution of 1791 Index of Names
Michael Walzer is a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. His other books include Just and Unjust Wars and Exodus and Revolution.
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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