Jean Paul Marat: A Study In Radicalism
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Ex-Library with usual markings.
Few figures of the French Revolution cut as polarising and electrifying a silhouette as Jean-Paul Marat — physician, pamphleteer, and ferocious voice of the dispossessed. Louis R. Gottschalk's authoritative biography chronicles the life of this enigmatic radical from his restless intellectual beginnings through his meteoric rise as the self-styled Friend of the People, dissecting the ideological forces that shaped one of history's most controversial revolutionaries. Set against the blood-soaked backdrop of 1790s Paris, the narrative captures the feverish intensity of a republic consuming itself, with Marat at its turbulent centre. Gottschalk, one of the twentieth century's foremost historians of the French Revolution, brings rigorous scholarship and compelling prose to bear on a subject that resists easy judgement. The work situates Marat within the broader currents of Enlightenment radicalism and popular sovereignty, arguing that his extreme politics were less the product of personal pathology than of systemic social injustice. Written with the cool authority of a seasoned academic yet never losing its narrative momentum, Jean Paul Marat: A Study in Radicalism remains an indispensable text for anyone seeking to understand the dark engine that drove the Revolution's most violent chapter — and what it means when the people's champion becomes the people's executioner.
Author: Louis R. Gottschalk
Format: Hardback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Ex-Library with usual markings.
Few figures of the French Revolution cut as polarising and electrifying a silhouette as Jean-Paul Marat — physician, pamphleteer, and ferocious voice of the dispossessed. Louis R. Gottschalk's authoritative biography chronicles the life of this enigmatic radical from his restless intellectual beginnings through his meteoric rise as the self-styled Friend of the People, dissecting the ideological forces that shaped one of history's most controversial revolutionaries. Set against the blood-soaked backdrop of 1790s Paris, the narrative captures the feverish intensity of a republic consuming itself, with Marat at its turbulent centre. Gottschalk, one of the twentieth century's foremost historians of the French Revolution, brings rigorous scholarship and compelling prose to bear on a subject that resists easy judgement. The work situates Marat within the broader currents of Enlightenment radicalism and popular sovereignty, arguing that his extreme politics were less the product of personal pathology than of systemic social injustice. Written with the cool authority of a seasoned academic yet never losing its narrative momentum, Jean Paul Marat: A Study in Radicalism remains an indispensable text for anyone seeking to understand the dark engine that drove the Revolution's most violent chapter — and what it means when the people's champion becomes the people's executioner.