Inventing the French Revolution : Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Ideas in Context)

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Inventing the French Revolution : Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Ideas in Context)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
  • 言語 ENG,ENG
  • 商品コード 9780521385787
  • DDC分類 944.034

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How did the French Revolution become thinkable? Keith Michael Baker, a leading authority on the ideological origins of the French Revolution, explores this question in his wide-ranging collection of essays. Analyzing the new politics of contestation that transformed the traditional political culture of the Old Regime during its last decades, Baker revises our historical map of the political space in which the French Revolution took form. Some essays study the ways in which the revolutionaries' break with the past was prepared by competition between agents and critics of absolute monarchy to control the cultural resources and political meanings of French sought before 1789 to reconstitute their body politic; and by the invention of 'public opinion' as a new form of political authority displacing notions of 'representation', 'constitution', 'sovereignty' - and of 'the French Revolution' itself - the ambiguities, tensions, and contradictions that were to drive the revolutionary dynamic in subsequent years. The result is a substantial and unified set of studies, stimulating renewed reflection on one of the central themes in modern European history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. On the problem of the ideological origins of
the French Revolution
Part I. French History at Issue: 2. Memory and
practice: politics and the representation of
the past in eighteenth-century France
3. Controlling French history: the ideological
arsenal of Jacob-Nicolas Moreau
4. A script for a French revolution: the
political consciousness of the abbé
Mably
Part II. The Language of Politics at the End of
the Old Regime: 5. French political thought at
the accession of Louis XVI
6. A classical republican in eighteenth-century
Bordeaux: Guillaume-Joseph Saige
7. Science and politics at the end of the old
regime
8. Public opinion as political invention
Part III. Toward a Revolutionary Lexicon: 9.
Inventing the French Revolution
10. Representation redefined
11. Fixing the French constitution
Notes
Index.