Goodness beyond Virtue: Jacobins during the French Revolution

Abstract

A narrative of the French Revolution from a Jacobin perspective the limitless claims of individual liberty the indisputable claims of civil society the limitless claims of the public sphere the indisputable claims of the nation Jacobins as the free citizens of a one-party state social reconciliation, fraternity spreading the word - rhetorics of harmony unifying emnities at home and abroad applied Jacobinism - the social ecologies of Jacobin principle looking backward - on the origins of Jacobin sensibility looking forward - Jacobinism in world history.