The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution
“One of the most memorable and absorbing books on the era I have ever read. . . . Against interpretations that simply blame circumstances, Edelstein too insists that ideas mattered. But the most provocative argument in his book is that the ideas that made the revolution spiral out of control were the cult of nature and the belief in natural rights.”(Samuel MoynNation)