Linton

2001 · 20670 — New York NY U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan. New. 2001. Hardcover. 0333949595 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED --258 pages - --Interior text is clean tight and unmarked. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. From the description on the DJ: "This is the first study to focus on the idea of political virtue in the whole pre-Revolutionary period in France. It shows that in an attempt to create a legitimate space in which ordinary people might speak out on political issues the rhetoric of political virtue played a key role. The language of virtue gave moral authority to public opinion and ultimately presented a considerable challenge to the traditional authority of absolute monarchy. This investigation shows just how universal this discourse was. Many people from priests delivering sermons noble magistrates in the 'parlements' eulogists dramatists and many novelists regularly used it as a way of talking about the nature of society and politics during the 'ancien regime'. This study is set within a much wider history of ideas and has important implications for our understanding of the cultural origins of the Revolution the Enlightenment and French thought." -- with a bonus offer--; . Palgrave Macmillan hardcover