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The Rights of Man

Author
Thomas Paine
Series
Ideas for Life
Language
English
Length
246 pages
ISBN
9781910660935
Published
15 March 2015
Imprint
The Big Nest
  • Thomas Paine
  • Rights
  • French history
  • French revolution
  • democracy
  • political
  • philosophy

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Paine argues that the interests of the monarch and his people are united, and insists that the French Revolution should be understood as one which attacks the despotic principles of the French monarchy, not the king himself, and he takes the Bastille to symbolise the despotism that had been overthrown.

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Thomas Paine (1737–1809) had the rare gift of making radical ideas feel like common sense. Common Sense helped turn colonial grievance into a republic; The Rights of Man carried that fire back across the Atlantic; later The Age of Reason scandalised the pious without losing his faith in human dignity. Paine wrote for taverns and barracks, not for salons — short sentences, large claims, a nerve that still startles.

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