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- published by Tor
- Buenos Aires, 1948
- Softcover binding
- Condition: Good
- Translation by Luis Ruiz Contreras
- 190 pages
- Ref. Item number: MAN000631
| This book is unequivocally linked to the liberal interpretation of the French Revolution, and goes even further, approaching the conservative tradition, in its radical rejection of the Terror, its merciless vision of Jacobism, of Robespierre, its final condemnation of the same idea of revolution. There is in Anatole France a keen perception close to Cochin, of those phenomena in which today we see a prefiguration of totalitarianism. The Jacobin clubs extend their manipulative network throughout the country, identifying the power of the State with the club, the Committee of Public Health with the power of the State, Robespierre with the Committee of Public Health. In short, the dictatorship, first of the apparatus, then of a man |