The French Revolution in Theory

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  • The French Revolution in Theory Book Detail

  • Author : Sophie Wahnich
  • Release Date : 2022-03-04
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Genre : Philosophy
  • Pages : 247
  • ISBN 13 : 178661619X
  • File Size : 87,87 MB

The French Revolution in Theory by Sophie Wahnich PDF Summary

Book Description: It is time to re-examine 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, it is philosophers that 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. Do we need an ethics of the history of the French Revolution? Rancière, 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 and to rediscover a real Revolution, capable of offering Enlightenment and political utility and interrogating what democracy and emancipation mean for us today.

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