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Hardcover A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France Book

ISBN: 022649957X

ISBN13: 9780226499574

A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France

In contemporary political discourse, it is common to denounce violent acts as "terroristic." But this reflexive denunciation is a surprisingly recent development. In A Genealogy of Terror in Eighteenth-Century France, Ronald Schechter tells the story of the term's evolution in Western thought, examining a neglected yet crucial chapter of our complicated romance with terror.

For centuries prior to the French Revolution, the word "terror"...

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