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The French Revolution in Theory
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2022
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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 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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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-78661-617-3
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978-1-78661-619-7
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Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
238
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INTRODUCTION The French Revolution Is Not a Myth: Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Lacan, and Us No access Pages 1 - 10
I THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AS AN OBJECT FOR SARTRE No access Pages 11 - 12
1 HOW DID THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BECOME AN OBJECT FOR SARTRE? No access Pages 13 - 24
2 WORKING WITH HISTORICAL DETAILS AGAINST THE FETISHIZATION OF THE REAL No access Pages 25 - 40
3 NO LONGER DISSOLVING THE REAL ACTORS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION No access Pages 41 - 52
4 RESTORING THE ROLE OF THE SACRED No access Pages 53 - 62
5 APOCALYPSE AND FRATERNITY-TERROR No access Pages 63 - 74
6 THE QUESTION OF DIALECTICAL TIME, OR THE INANITY OF THE NOTION OF THE REARGUARD No access Pages 75 - 96
II REBUKING SARTRE AND HIS FINAL HUMANIST OBJECT: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION UNDER SCRUTINY No access Pages 97 - 102
7 THREE HUMANITIES IN ONE: EUROPEAN, COLONIZED, SAVAGE No access Pages 103 - 118
8 FINISHING A BOOK, CONCLUDING A DISCUSSION No access Pages 119 - 132
9 MICHEL FOUCAULT AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A Misunderstanding? No access Pages 133 - 146
10 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Between the Archaeology of Knowledge, Discursive Formations, and Social Formations No access Pages 147 - 162
11 ON THE “IRANIAN REVOLUTION” Retrieving the Missed Object, with Foucault and Despite Foucault No access Pages 163 - 176
12 “THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AS MATRIX OF TOTALITARIANISM” The Enigma of a Bizarre Statement No access Pages 177 - 192
13 SADE AND THE ETHICAL FOLD OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION No access Pages 193 - 210
CONCLUSIONClearing Some Foggy Patches No access Pages 211 - 238
