Acknowledgments; Prologue: The Revolution Is Frozen; ONE: Rousseau's "Contradiction of Words": Sublime Totality and the Social Pact; TWO: The Terror That Speaks: The Unspeakable Politics of Robespierre and Saint-Just; THREE: The Bridle and the Spur: Collusion and Contestation in Desmoulins's Vieux Cordelier; FOUR: The Second Time as Farce: Sade Says It All, Ironically; Epilogue: The Revolution Eats Its Children; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary
Terror and Its Discontents is a revealing look into the paradoxical embargo on free expression that underpinned the Robespierrists' self-proclaimed "despotism of liberty" during the French Revolution. Caroline Weber provides a highly original--and timely--exposition of the political uses of rhetoric and of the links between language and power
Notes
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 1998) presented under the title: The limits of "saying everything: terrorist suppressions and uspeakable difference in Rousseau, Sade, Robespierre, Saint-Just, and Desmoulins."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index
