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Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès | Histoire | Hackett Publishing Company | Date de parution: 2003 | ISBN-13: 9780872204300 | Couverture: Souple | Anglais | 190 pages
The abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes (1748-1836) distinguished himself as the chief theoretician of the French Revolution - and as a revolutionary constitutional and social theorist in his own right - through his rigorously analytical theory of representative government and its corollary, the representative character of social life in general. He expressed the essence of his thought in a series of three pamphlets published in the months leading up to the meeting of the Estates-General in 1789. This volume presents all three essays - Views of the Executive Means, An Essay on Privileges, and What Is the Third Estate? - in their entirety. The third essay, in a new translation by Michael Sonenscher, is followed by Sieyes' 1791 newspaper debate with Tom Paine on the merits of monarchy versus republicanism. Elucidated by Sonenscher's insightful Introduction, these texts will fascinate anyone interested in the history of the French Revolution, the history of social and political thought, or the origins and character of modern liberalism.
"This is an invaluable contribution to the study of political thought. Sieyès was the most important political thinker of the French Revolution and one of the great theorists of representative government. Michael Sonenscher has made it easier for Anglophone readers to understand why. In addition to excellent translations, he provides a brilliantly original and illuminating Introduction to these fundamental texts."
-KEITH MICHAEL BAKER, Stanford University
MICHAEL SONENSCHER is a Fellow and Director of Studies in History, King's College, University of Cambridge.
