International Social Science Journal (Chinese Edition)

No.2, 2023

 

Living the Revolutionary Melodrama: Robespierre’s Sensibility and the Construction of Political Commitment in the French Revolution

(Abstract)

 

David Andress  

 

Discussions of the “emotionalism” of the French revolutionaries run the risk of oversimplifying the “political factions” in history. A study of Robespierre’s life shows us that these views constitute his conception of the self, while also demonstrating the profound emotional and political implications of the vivid, shared expression of the self.