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.
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.
Sophie Wahnich is Director of research in History and Political Science at the National Research Institute (Centre national de recherche scientifique , CNRS), Director of the IIAC in the École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales, France. A specialist of the French revolution trained in discourse analysis and political theory, Sophie Wahnich's work deals with disruptive historical events and their consequences for the political, social and emotional fabric of society.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction The French Revolution is Not a Myth: Sartre, Lévi- Strauss, Foucault, Lacan and us Part I Chapter one How did the French Revolution become a Sartrean object? Chapter two Working with historical details against the fetishizing of reality Chapter three Do not dissolve the real men of the French Revolution in a bath of sulfuric acid Chapter four Restoring the sacred to its place Chapter five Apocalypse and Fraternity-Terror Chapter six The question of dialectical time and the futility of the notion of rearguard Part II Chapter seven Three humanities in one, Europeans, colonized, savages Chapter eight Conclude a book, conclude a discussion Chapter nine Michel Foucault and the French Revolution: a misunderstanding? Chapter ten The French Revolution in between archaeologies of knowledge, discourse formations, and social formations Chapter eleven Surrounding the Iranian revolution, retrieving the missed object with Foucault, in spite of Foucault Chapter twelve the French Revolution, matrix of totalitarianism, a strange enigma of a statement Chapter thirteen Sade and the folds of the ethics of the French Revolution Conclusion Dissipating layers of fog
Introduction The French Revolution is Not a Myth: Sartre, Lévi- Strauss, Foucault, Lacan and us Part I Chapter one How did the French Revolution become a Sartrean object? Chapter two Working with historical details against the fetishizing of reality Chapter three Do not dissolve the real men of the French Revolution in a bath of sulfuric acid Chapter four Restoring the sacred to its place Chapter five Apocalypse and Fraternity-Terror Chapter six The question of dialectical time and the futility of the notion of rearguard Part II Chapter seven Three humanities in one, Europeans, colonized, savages Chapter eight Conclude a book, conclude a discussion Chapter nine Michel Foucault and the French Revolution: a misunderstanding? Chapter ten The French Revolution in between archaeologies of knowledge, discourse formations, and social formations Chapter eleven Surrounding the Iranian revolution, retrieving the missed object with Foucault, in spite of Foucault Chapter twelve the French Revolution, matrix of totalitarianism, a strange enigma of a statement Chapter thirteen Sade and the folds of the ethics of the French Revolution Conclusion Dissipating layers of fog
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