Departing from Mario Turchetti's study on the concept of tyranny and tyrannicide, the author sets out to explore its specific use in the political discourse in the eighteenth century. Originally, as in the works of Plato and Montesquieu, tyranny was used in reference to degenerate forms of government. Tyranny and tyrannicide gained additional significance with its inclusion in the virulent discourse during the radicalization of the French Revolution. Based on the myth of Brutus and other classical sources, anti-tyrannical rhetoric in the form revolutionary literature and propaganda spurted political activism. As the figure of the king became the main obstacle to liberty and the foundation of a new republic, tyranny and tyrannicide became key concepts in the revolutionary movements.
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Use and Role of the Concepts of Tyrrany and Tyrannicide During the French Revolution
Raymonde Monnier
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Art of Solidarity
Cuban Posters for African Liberation 1967–1989
David Fleming
of the national culture of Cuba, owing to its long history of fighting against foreign political and economic domination. The artworks, which are basically revolutionary propaganda, therefore represent some of the most vicious conflicts in Africa of
Chaos in Siberia
New Scholarship on Exile in the Late Russian Empire
Jeffrey S. Hardy
the relative weakness of police authorities, they distributed revolutionary propaganda and engaged “in a host of acts of minor defiance” of the tsarist regime. 49 This prompted prison authorities to conclude that the exile system “was only incubating