Description: 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 P&P in the UK 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.
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Book Title: Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution : The Abbe Sieyes and What Is th
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 1994
Subject: History
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: the Abbe Sieyes and What Is the Third Estate?
Type: Textbook
Author: William H Sewell, Jr.
Series: Bicentennial Reflections on the French Revolution
Format: Hardcover