The French Revolution in theory

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 postcoloni...

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Main Author: Wahnich, Sophie
Other Authors: Glyn-Williams, Owen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland Rowman & Littlefield, [2022]
Series:Reinventing critical theory.
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • INTRODUCTION The French Revolution Is Not a Myth: Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Lacan, and Us
  • I THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AS AN OBJECT FOR SARTRE
  • 1 HOW DID THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BECOME AN OBJECT FOR SARTRE?
  • 2 WORKING WITH HISTORICAL DETAILS AGAINST THE FETISHIZATION OF THE REAL
  • 3 NO LONGER DISSOLVING THE REAL ACTORS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
  • 4 RESTORING THE ROLE OF THE SACRED
  • 5 APOCALYPSE AND FRATERNITY-TERROR
  • 6 THE QUESTION OF DIALECTICAL TIME, OR THE INANITY OF THE NOTION OF THE REARGUARD
  • II REBUKING SARTRE AND HIS FINAL HUMANIST OBJECT: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION UNDER SCRUTINY
  • 7 THREE HUMANITIES IN ONE: EUROPEAN, COLONIZED, SAVAGE
  • 8 FINISHING A BOOK, CONCLUDING A DISCUSSION
  • 9 MICHEL FOUCAULT AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A Misunderstanding?
  • 10 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Between the Archaeology of Knowledge, Discursive Formations, and Social Formations
  • 11 ON THE "IRANIAN REVOLUTION" Retrieving the Missed Object, with Foucault and Despite Foucault
  • 12 "THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AS MATRIX OF TOTALITARIANISM" The Enigma of a Bizarre Statement
  • 13 SADE AND THE ETHICAL FOLD OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
  • CONCLUSIONClearing Some Foggy Patches