The Guillotine and the Terror by Daniel Arasse

The Guillotine and the Terror by Daniel Arasse

This is a study of the guillotine and its role in the French Revolution, concentrating as much upon the social and psychological contexts - the "mythology" and theatre of the guillotine - as upon the history and transformations of the guillotine's invention. The book offers a thesis which argues, for example, that the guillotine acts as an enlightenment machine, as the begetter of a new physiology of the headless body politic, as an aristocratic/democratic art of dying, and as the source of a new kind of criminological portraiture.

Arasse, Daniel: - Daniel Arasse est ancien ü¾Ž–”¼lü¾Ž†”¼ve de l'ü¾Ž–Œ¼cole normale supü¾Ž–”¼rieure. Directeur de l'Institut franü¾¶”¼ais de Florence de 1982 ü¾Œ†”¼ 1989, directeur d'ü¾Ž–”¼tudes ü¾Œ†”¼ l'ü¾Ž–Œ¼cole des hautes ü¾Ž–”¼tudes en sciences sociales. Ses ouvrages ont connu un succü¾Ž†”¼s aussi bien des connaisseurs que d'un public de plus en plus large. Son aura n'a cessü¾Ž–”¼ de grandir, au grü¾Ž–”¼ de ses sü¾Ž–”¼minaires, confü¾Ž–”¼rences, livres et ü¾Ž–”¼missions de radio. Il a publiü¾Ž–”¼ aux ü¾Ž–”¼ditions Hazan, L'annonciation italienne, Leonard de Vinci, L'homme en jeu, L'homme en perspective, Dü¾Ž–”¼cors italiens de la Renaissance.

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ISBN 13	9780140108309
ISBN 10	0140108300
Title	The Guillotine and the Terror
Author	Daniel Arasse
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1991-07-25
Number of pages	224
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