Janusz Adamowski

New Man, New Nation, New World

The French Revolution in Myth and Reality- Edited by Janusz Adamowski- Translated by Alex Shannon

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Produktbeschreibung

In this new interpretation of the French Revolution, Jan Baszkiewicz examines revolutionary attempts to "regenerate" man, France and the world in the face of deep-seated and persistent traditions. Using a broad array of primary sources - including pamphlets, diaries, police reports, and debate protocols - Baszkiewicz analyzes the tools French revolutionaries used to build a new society on the wreckage of the Ancien Régime: Spectacular holidays, reforms in family and marriage law, general schooling, the Republican Calendar, the "liberation" of public spaces, education through work, a new religion, terror and war. In the end, the great plans for regeneration failed, though the myths that surrounded those failures lived on well into the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Polish Ideas in Motion. Past to Present 1
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 261576
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9783631615768
• ISBN-10: 3631615760
• Artikelnr.: 35538078

Autorenporträt

Jan Baszkiewicz (1930-2011) was a Polish historian whose fields of research included political thought, social movements and political institutions. Much of his work focused on the Age of Enlightenment and the history of France. Other than New Man, New Nation, New World, his most popular works covered Robespierre, Danton and Richelieu.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Enlightenment philosophers on revolutionary regeneration - The Revolution as Final Judgment - The Revolution as a process - The moral existence of the individual - The new man and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen - The formation of civic attitudes - Revolutionary holidays - Popular culture, the problem of vandalism - National unity on the ruins of regional differences - The problem of linguistic unity - Socio-political guarantees of national unity - Religion as an instrument of integration - The family, the model for the social community - The conflict over political rights for women - The French Revolution as a universal model - The legal and practical situation of foreigners - New hope for a world revolution - The world in revolutionary futurology.