...Leo Gershoy Copyright © 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 BARERE, ANACREON OF THE GUILLOTINE LEO GERSHOY Brooklyn, N. Y. There is a disturbing fullness about Bertrand Barere s appeal to posterity. His record reads like a register of crimes and the list of his personal traits resembles...

..., then reprinted with a long, discursive preface in 1832. Hugo makes the strange decision to tell this story of the last day of a man sentenced to die on the guillotine—at four o'clock in the afternoon—in the first person. The implausibility of the narrative technique is a problem, as are Hugo's decisions never...

... Nobody bears witness for the witness. —Paul Celan, “Ashglory” ​In his 1957 essay “Reflections on the Guillotine,” Albert Camus recounts the story of how he came...

... dispassionate, observer. Heine will remark, only half in jest, that Kant had in any case far surpassed Robespierre in intel- lectual terrorism: whereas the guillotine managed to kill off only a pathetic, fat king who had lost his head anyway, the axe of reason had slain deism itself throughout Germany...

... a government of dangerous philistines. In my most recent work, to further articulate how America is imploding on itself, I have inverted the Pentagon building, turning it into a wounded guillotine. Collaging the Capitol 513 For my aim...

..., Lester Ward. Mr. Ward would call M. Faguet a sociocrat, to quote again the American philosopher s language. But I suspect the French thinker to be more restrained in his sociocracy. He quotes the saying of Proudhon, I dream of a republic so liberal that in it I would be guillotined as a reactionary...

... misguided individuals, and a few real martyrs died under the blade of the guillotine, but the majority of those exe­ cuted, to judge from the dossiers and other legal evidence, seem to have been guilty as charged. Even more significant perhaps than the atmosphere of terror which enveloped its name...

...-Revolution, vol. 1 of The Guillotine at Work, by Gregory Petrovich Maximoff , 11 – 16 . East Sussex, UK : ChristieBooks . Ealham Chris . 2010 . Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937 . Oakland, CA : AK Press . Getzler Israel . 1983...

... ideals and ideas began to assert themselves. The revival of the guillotine in France, in 1909, struck the thoughtful mind as a thing of evil omen. It seemed to mark either a recrudescence of old disorders or the dying out of the influence which in every land had been making for a healthier penal system...

... evil, the so-called Bush Doctrine is its guillotine. The centerpiece of the doctrine states—contrary to the UN Charter, which legitimizes only self-defensive conflict—that pre- emptive war is justified if an attack on the nation is deemed imminent. Fashioned to justify war against Hussein’s Iraq...

... revolution. The proscriptions in Rome of the aristocrats by Marius and Cinna and of the leaders of the democrats by Sulla, and the guillotining in France of the nobility during the Revolution, drained off the best blood of the nation a hundredfold faster than ordinary war. This deliberate and systematic...

..., as it was before the guillotine made all men equal. It is, to quote Buckle, vested in: a machine well worthy of the design. The whole country is covered by an immense army of officials who, in the regularity of their descending series form an admirable emblem of that feudal system, which ceasing to be territorial...

... capitalism is the pinnacle a pin­ nacle at which ideological struggles will cease, bringing about the end of ideology. As Adolfo Sanchez Vazquez has commented in response to these opinions: History is another one of the heads that rolls under the postmodernist guillotine. It is no longer a question...

... fac­ tor which operated adversely to a good opinion of France in England: the execution of Louis XVI. In February, 1797, Coleridge in a letter to John Thelwall charged the legislature of France with violating laws of their own making in putting Louis to the guillotine and condemned the practice...

... is, perhaps, their most characteristic quality. As they are sung by the old negroes, they have a charm which is almost irresistible. The illustrations are by Carol McPherson and add very much to this interesting little volume. R. L. Flowers. Book Reviews. 197 The Literary Guillotine. By ? New York: John Lane...

..., established the nomenclature, and ordered the making of platinum prototypes.14 Ten days later the Committee of Public Instruction named special commissioners to perform the scientific work the members of the old metric commission before its purge, with the exception of Lavoisier who had been guillotined...

... to 1795 claimed to act on behalf of the French 38 The South Atlantic Quarterly people because its members were in theory subject to recall by the sovereign people. But it was never clear how this people could make its wishes known since every opponent of the Committee lost his head under the guillotine...

.... However, the new Reign of Terror may now be not a direct eighteenth- century construction of a guillotine for public executions, but a reign because of terror—perceived, invented, or real—a terror that is the raison d’être of the ways in which the government, the state, and individuals must...

... on political reasons, this meant that even their bare life—their life doomed to death—was political. If, under 304 Jacques Rancière the guillotine, they were as equal, so to speak, ‘‘as men they had the right to the whole of equality, including equal participation to political life. Of course...

... of Rights, trans. Allan Cameron (New York: Polity Press, 1995), 143 and also 128, 140–41, 144, 149–50, 160; Albert Camus, Reflections on the Guillotine, trans. Richard Howard (Michigan City, IN: Fridtjof-Karla Publications, 1959), 44–47; and Jacques Derrida, “Capital Punishment: Another...