The Running Logic of Jacobin Dictatorship from the Perspective of Emotional History

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10.2991/978-2-38476-130-2_9How to use a DOI?

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Jacobin Dictatorship; emotional humanity; emotional refuge; revolutionary regime

Abstract

During the Jacobin dictatorship, French society gave birth to a new emotional system and social trust system, but under the revolutionary situation, the external framework composed of these two can not stabilize the emotional experience of the emotional community. Social events promote each major emotional community to produce more and more extreme emotional experience, and these emotional experience will also be expressed in extreme ways. During this period, the fear of conspiracy and the desire to preserve the revolution among the populace and revolutionaries reached an unprecedented level. The violent repression of June 1793 to July 1794 was the result of the emotional imbalance of the emotional community of the revolutionaries and the populace, the consequences of which were ultimately borne by French society as a whole. When the anger and passion finally gave way to the fear and anxiety of the violence, the Thermidor coup duly occurred and prevented the revolution from turning into complete terror. The Jacobin dictatorship came to an abrupt end, but the emotional roots of the Red Terror remain buried in almost every subsequent revolution.

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AU  - Zhaoyang Xu
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/10/29
TI  - The Running Logic of Jacobin Dictatorship from the Perspective of Emotional History
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Public Culture and Social Services (PCSS 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 62
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SN  - 2352-5398
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