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The French Revolution in Theory (Hardcover)
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The French Revolution in Theory (Hardcover)
Series: Reinventing Critical Theory
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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 Levi-Strauss and subsequently, Michel Foucault.
Do we need an ethics of the history of the French Revolution?
Ranciere, 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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