Portrayals of Revolution: Images, Debates, and Patterns of Thought on the French Revolution - Hardcover

Parker, Noel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809316846 ISBN 13: 9780809316847

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990

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How did the French try to understand their revolution? How have writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries portrayed so unprecedented an upheaval?

Dr. Parker examines contemporary representations of the Revolutionpolitical rhetoric, journals, theatre, festivals, pictures and printsconcentrating on two special themes. First, the creators of these representations were part of an attempt to found anew the social order. Second, they sought to adapt their forms of culture so as to constitute through them the united community that was to be the agent of this historic new order.

The second half of the book considers a representative selection of the many histories and theoretical writings on the Revolution from France, England and Germany: from Barnave and de Stael; to the nineteenth-century founders of social science and romantic historians, such as Michelet; to post-war comparative political writers and post-structuralist marxists influenced by Gramsci and Foucault.

By bringing together an analysis of contemporary cultural responses to the Revolution and an account of subsequent cultures’ understanding of it, the author reveals the complex interplay between culture and agents of historical change, which modern views have often failed to realize.

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Noel Parker has worked in Manchester as a regional academic member of the Open University for over a decade, teaching on political, philosophical and historic topics, and supervising the teaching and counseling service. He is known to readers ofRadical Philosophy as a long standing participant and contributor.

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• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809316846
• ISBN 13: 9780809316847
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244
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