Emmanuel Joseph Sieys : The Essential Political Writings (Studies in the History of Political Thought)

Lembcke, Oliver W. (EDT)/ Weber, Florian (EDT)

Brill Academic Pub（2014/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 204 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004225718
• DDC分類 320.1

Full Description

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès occupies a prominent place within the history of political thought. He stands at the forefront of both the discourses on human rights and on democratic constitutionalism. And yet, because of his theory of the constituent power he holds a somewhat ambivalent reputation as an advocate of permanent revolution. This state of reception is largely due to the fact that the better part of his work has hitherto not been edited outside of France. The edition Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès: The Essential Political Writings proposes to fill out this desideratum. It seeks to portray Sieyès, against the backdrop of an enlarged textual corpus, as a moderate proponent of the constitutional State.

Contents

Foreword ... ix

Note to the Reader ... xi

Acknowledgements ... xii

Introduction to Sieyès's Political Theory ... 1
Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber

1 What Is the Third Estate? ... 43
2 Reasoned Exposition of the Rights of Man and Citizen ... 118
3 Controversy between Mr. Paine and M. Emmanuel Sieyès ... 135
4 Of the Gains of Liberty in Society and in the Representative System ... 144
5 Sieyès's Views Concerning Several Articles of Sections IV and V of the Draft Constitution [First Thermidorian Intervention] .... 152
6 The Opinion of Sieyès Concerning the Tasks and Organization of the Constitutional Jury, Submitted on the Second Thermidor [Second Thermidorian Intervention] ... 170
7 Constitutional Observations ... 186

Bibliography ... 195

Index ... 202