Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution : The Abbe Sieyes and What Is the Third Esta...

by William H. Sewell Jr., William H. Sewell

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Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution : The Abbe Sieyes and What Is the Third Estate?, Hardcover by Sewell, William Hamilton, ISBN 0822315289, ISBN-13 9780822315285, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The author analyzes the pamphlet from the French Revolution as a powerful political intervention that helped determine the revolution's shape, especially the passages that raise doubts about two central propositions of Sieyes' argument: his apparently total opposition to privilege and his seeming espousal of political equality among members of the Third Estate. In an epilogue, Sewell discusses the paradoxical history of Sieyes' rhetorical devices. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Year: 1994
• ISBN: 9780822315285
• Condition: Fine

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