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Revolutions Revisited - Two Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment (Paperback, New edition)
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In this elegant extended essay, Ralph Lerner concentrates on the
politics of enlightenment--the process by which those who sought to
set minds free went about their work. Eighteenth-century
revolutionaries in America and Europe, Lerner argues, found that a
revolution aimed at liberating bodies and minds had somehow to be
explained and defended. Lerner first investigates how the makers of
revolution sought to improve their public's aspirations and
chances. He pays particular attention to Benjamin Franklin, to the
tone and substance of revolutionaries' appeals on both sides of the
Atlantic, and to the preoccupations of first- and second-generation
enlighteners among the Americans. He then unfolds the art by which
later political actors, confronting the profound political,
constitutional, and social divisions of their own day, drew upon
and reworked their national revolutionary heritage. Lerner's
examination of the speeches and writings of Edmund Burke, Abraham
Lincoln, and Alexis de Tocqueville shows them to be masters of a
political rhetoric once closely analyzed by Plato and his medieval
student al-Farabi but now nearly forgotten.
Originally published in 1994.
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General
Imprint: |
The University of North Carolina Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2011 |
First published: |
May 2011 |
Authors: |
Ralph Lerner
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Dimensions: |
235 x 122 x 9mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
152 |
Edition: |
New edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8078-5742-7 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8078-5742-4 |
Barcode: |
9780807857427 |
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