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On the Spirit of Rights

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226794303, ISBN: HB: 9780226588988, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
334 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 5 tables

By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did "rights" come to justify such mea...

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Power and Time Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History

Edelstein Dan, Geroulanos Stefanos, Wheatley Natasha

ISBN: HB: 9780226481623, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Da...

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Terror of Natural Right Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226184395, ISBN: HB: 9780226184388, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
350 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 6 halftones, 2 line illus.

Natural right – the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin – is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In "The Terror of Natural Right", Dan Edelstein argues...

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Enlightenment A Genealogy

Edelstein Dan

ISBN: PB: 9780226184494, ISBN: HB: 9780226184470, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
184 pp., 21.5x13 cm

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of "the Enlightenment" first em...

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