A Rhetoric of Bourgeois Revolution: The ABBE Sieyes and What Is the Third Estate?

Author/Contributor(s):	Sewell, William H, Jr
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	12/05/1994
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"In this remarkable analysis, William Sewell restores to Sieyes's great text a complexity that has too often been denied it. Drawing on contemporary political theory and political economy as well as historical and biographical material, Sewell masterfully demonstrates that what matters about Sieyes's text is not only its acknowledged influence on the events of the French Revolution, but also the ways in which contemporaries misunderstood or rejected its deeper, prophetic vision."--Sarah Maza, Northwestern University