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The Calendar in Revolutionary France - Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics (Hardcover, New)
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The Calendar in Revolutionary France - Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics (Hardcover, New)
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One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French
Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic
impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating
date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment
lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted all sorts of questions about
the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to
individual, community, communication and creative life. This study
traces the course of the Revolutionary Calendar, from its cultural
origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of
the calendar and the literary genius of its creator, Sylvain
Marechal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja
Perovic reconsiders the status of the French Revolution as the
purported 'origin' of modernity, the modern experience of time, and
the relationship between the imagination and political action.
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