In pursuit of politics : education and revolution in eighteenth-century France /
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| Author / Creator: | O'Connor, Adrian, author. |
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| Imprint: | Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017. ©2017 |
| Description: | viii, 262 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in modern French history Studies in modern French history. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11420913 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Politics: a revolutionary idea and a practical problem
- Prologue: the educational "system" of eighteenth-century France
- 1. Education and an ambivalent Enlightenment
- 2. National education: promise and paralysis
- 3. Public instruction: a new pedagogy for a new politics
- 4. Constitutional principles and concrete proposals: reconsidering Talleyrand and Condorcet on public instruction
- 5. Revolutionary politics à la plume: the public on education and politics
- 6. New wine in old bottles? Ancien Régime schools imagine the future
- 7. Republican instruction: an elusive ideal
- Conclusion: Politics: real, pursued, and promised
- Bibliography
- Index
