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The French Revolution in Theory
About this book
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.
More so than historians, it is philosophers that have played the leading role in the portrayal of this major event in French political history. The philosophical quarrels of the 1960s placed the French Revolution at the heart of their debates. The most well-documented among these is the conflict between Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude LĆ©vi-Strauss and subsequently, Michel Foucault.
Do we need an ethics of the history of the French Revolution? RanciĆØre, Derrida, Balibar, Lefort, Robin, and Loraux can help answer this question, in an epistemological approach to history. These successive explorations allow us to move away from a myth of identity and to rediscover a real Revolution, capable of offering Enlightenment and political utility and interrogating what democracy and emancipation mean for us today.
More so than historians, it is philosophers that have played the leading role in the portrayal of this major event in French political history. The philosophical quarrels of the 1960s placed the French Revolution at the heart of their debates. The most well-documented among these is the conflict between Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude LĆ©vi-Strauss and subsequently, Michel Foucault.
Do we need an ethics of the history of the French Revolution? RanciĆØre, Derrida, Balibar, Lefort, Robin, and Loraux can help answer this question, in an epistemological approach to history. These successive explorations allow us to move away from a myth of identity and to rediscover a real Revolution, capable of offering Enlightenment and political utility and interrogating what democracy and emancipation mean for us today.
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Table of contents
- INTRODUCTION The French Revolution Is Not a Myth: Sartre, LĆ©vi-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 āIRANIAN REVOLUTIONā Retrieving the Missed Object, with Foucault and Despite Foucault
- 12 āTHE FRENCH REVOLUTION AS MATRIX OF TOTALITARIANISMā The Enigma of a Bizarre Statement
- 13 SADE AND THE ETHICAL FOLD OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- CONCLUSIONClearing Some Foggy Patches