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Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment (Paperback)
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Few individuals made such an impact on nineteenth-century French
politics as Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881). Political organiser,
leader, propagandist and prisoner, Blanqui was arguably the
foremost proponent of popular power to emerge after the French
Revolution. Practical engagement in all the major uprisings that
spanned the course of his life - 1830, 1848, 1870-71 - was
accompanied by theoretical reflections on a broad range of issues,
from free will and fatalism to public education and individual
development. Since his death, however, Blanqui has not been simply
overlooked or neglected; his name has widely become synonymous with
theoretical misconception and practical misadventure. Auguste
Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment offers a major
re-evaluation of one the most controversial figures in the history
of revolutionary politics. The book draws extensively on Blanqui's
manuscripts and published works, as well as writings only recently
translated into English for the first time. Through a detailed
reconstruction and critical analysis of Blanqui's political
thought, it challenges the prevailing image of an unthinking
insurrectionist and rediscovers a forceful and compelling theory of
collective political action and radical social change. It suggests
that some of Blanqui's fundamental assumptions - from the
insistence on the primacy of subjective determination to the
rejection of historical necessity - are still relevant to politics
today.
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