The cover page is adapted from Portrait du Chanteur Simon Chenard en Costume de Sans-Culotte, a painting completed in 1792 by Louis-Léopold Boilly. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Léopold_Boillywww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Rights of Man
Capítulos (18)
- Editor’s Introduction 0:00
- Part First: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution: Dedication 12:37
- Paine’s Preface to the English Edition 13:19
- Paine’s Preface to the French Edition 18:33
- Rights of Man 23:06
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens by the National Assembly of France 3:19:11
- Observations on the Declaration of Rights 3:24:40
- Miscellaneous Chapter 3:29:21
- Conclusion 4:25:05
- Part Second: Combining Principle and Practice: French Translator’s Preface (1792) 4:42:17
- To M. de la Fayette 4:44:03
- Preface 4:46:39
- Introduction 5:00:26
- I: Of Society and Civilisation 5:09:18
- II: Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments 5:21:03
- III: Of the Old and New Systems of Government 5:26:11
- IV: Of Constitutions 6:02:01
- V: Ways and Means of Improving the Condition of Europe: Interspersed with Miscellaneous Observations 6:57:04
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Thomas Paine wrote the first part of The Rights of Man in 1791 as a response to the furious attack on the French Revolution by the British parliamentarian Edmund Burke in his pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France, published the previous year. Paine carefully dissects and counters Burke’s arguments and provides a more accurate description of the events surrounding the revolution of 1789. He then reproduces and comments on the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens” promulgated by the National Assembly of France.
The manuscript of The Rights of Man was placed with the publisher Joseph Johnson, but that publisher was threatened with legal action by the British Government. Paine then gave the work to another publisher, J. S. Jordan, and on the advice of William Blake, Paine went to France to be out of the way of possible arrest in Britain. The Rights of Man was published in March 1791, and was an immediate success with the British public, selling nearly a million copies.
A second part of the book, subtitled “Combining Principle and Practice,” was published in February 1792. It puts forward practical proposals for the establishment of republican government in countries like Britain.
The Rights of Man had a major impact, leading to the establishment of a number of reform societies. After the publication of the second part of the book, Paine and his publisher were charged with seditious libel, and Paine was eventually forced to leave Britain and flee to France. Today The Rights of Man is considered a classic of political writing and philosophy.