Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes : the essential political writings / edited, with an introduction and historical annotations by Oliver W. Lembcke, Florian Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph, comte, 1748-1836, author.

Contributor:

Lembcke, Oliver, editor, author of introduction, etc., annotator.

Weber, Florian, 1978- editor, author of introduction, etc., annotator.

Series:

Studies in the history of political thought ; Volume 9.

Studies in the History of Political Thought, 1873-6548 ; Volume 9

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph, comte, 1748-1836.

Sieyès, Emmanuel Joseph.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

State, The.

Constitutional law--France.

Constitutional law.

Constitutional history--France.

Constitutional history.

France--Politics and government--1789-1815.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brill 2014

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Front Matter / Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber

Introduction to Sieyès’s Political Theory / Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber

What Is the Third Estate? / Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber

Reasoned Exposition of the Rights of Man and Citizen / Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber

Controversy between Mr. Paine and M. Emmanuel Sieyès / Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber

Of the Gains of Liberty in Society and in the Representative System / Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber

Sieyès’s Views Concerning Several Articles of Sections IV and V of the Draft Constitution [First Thermidorian Intervention] / Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber

The Opinion of Sieyès Concerning the Tasks and Organization of the Constitutional Jury, Submitted on the Second Thermidor [Second Thermidorian Intervention] / Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber

Constitutional Observations / Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber

Bibliography / Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber

Index / Oliver W. Lembcke and Florian Weber.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-27399-9

OCLC:

880826924

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004273993 DOI

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access