The French Revolution in theory /

The French Revolution in theory /

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Author / Creator:	Wahnich, Sophie, author.
Uniform title:	Révolution française n'est pas un mythe. English
Imprint:	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022] ©2022
Description:	viii, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Reinventing critical theory Reinventing critical theory.
Subject:	Historiography -- Political aspects -- France -- History. Historiography. France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Historiography. France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence. France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Public opinion. France. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12731163

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Other authors / contributors:	Glyn-Williams, Owen, translator.
ISBN:	1786616173 9781786616173 9781786616197
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	It is time to reexamine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty and emancipation; instead, the Revolution has been vilified as a matrix of totalitarianisms by the liberals and as an ethnocentric phenomenon by postcolonial studies. This book examines why. More so than historians, philosophers have played the leading role in the portrayal of this major event in French political history. The philosophical quarrels of the 1960s placed the French Revolution at the heart of their debates. The most well-documented among these is the conflict between Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude Lévi-Strauss and, subsequently, Michel Foucault. So we need an ethics of the history of the French Revolution? Ranciére, Derrida, Balibar, Lefort, Robin, and Loraux can help answer this question, in an epistemological approach to history. These successive explorations allow us to move away from a myth of identity to rediscover a real revolution, capable of offering enlightenment and political utility and interrogating what democracy and emancipation mean for us today--back cover.
Other form:	ebook version : 9781786616197

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